diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 7969a3ef..05b8657e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1937,3 +1937,6 @@ Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
 
 Antti Hartikainen <ami+vdr@ah.fi>
  for updating 'S13E' in 'sources.conf'
+
+Patrick Maier <maierp@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
+ for fixing handling network masks in the svdrphosts.conf file
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 01bf71cf..530f0707 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4818,3 +4818,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   true.
 - Newlines in title and short text of an EPG event are now changed into blanks only
   after all other fixes, because a short text might become a description.
+- Fixed handling network masks in the svdrphosts.conf file (thanks to Patrick
+  Maier).
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index d89072b3..f3942668 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.c 1.145 2006/04/17 11:00:00 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.c 1.146 2006/07/22 11:57:51 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "config.h"
@@ -106,8 +106,10 @@ bool cSVDRPhost::Parse(const char *s)
      *(char *)p = 0; // yes, we know it's 'const' - will be restored!
      if (m == 0)
         mask = 0;
-     else
-        mask >>= (32 - m);
+     else {
+        mask <<= (32 - m);
+        mask = htonl(mask);
+        }
      }
   int result = inet_aton(s, &addr);
   if (p)