diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 820c9e4f..29b20c48 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -193,3 +193,6 @@ Michael Paar <mpaar@uumail.de>
 
 Hannu Savolainen <hannu@opensound.com>
  for translating the OSD texts to the Finnish language
+
+Jürgen Schmidt <ju@ct.heise.de>
+ for fixing a problem with 'in_addr_t' on systems with glibc < 2.2.
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 8a2b861f..c5bf647f 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -981,3 +981,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Reverted to the previous way of searching for the EPG record of the current
   recording in case of a periodic timer (i.e. taking the one that is in the
   middle between start and end time).
+- Added a typedef for 'in_addr_t' to make it work with glibc < 2.2 (thanks to
+  Jürgen Schmidt).
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index 325f4ef2..8d259820 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.h 1.93 2002/02/03 15:16:21 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h 1.94 2002/02/09 16:00:00 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __CONFIG_H
@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ public:
   const char *Execute(void);
   };
 
+typedef uint32_t in_addr_t; //XXX from /usr/include/netinet/in.h (apparently this is not defined on systems with glibc < 2.2)
+
 class cSVDRPhost : public cListObject {
 private:
   struct in_addr addr;