Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
Fortunately, we only support big-endian and little-endian platforms,
and on both of those, hton*() and ntoh*() behave the same. And if
we did start to support middle endian systems (haha, no), most of
_those_ have hton*(x) == ntoh*(x) too.
