diff -U3 -r syslog-ng-1.4.14nm/src/utils.c syslog-ng-1.4.14nm_aton/src/utils.c
--- syslog-ng-1.4.14nm/src/utils.c	Sun Feb 25 13:30:22 2001
+++ syslog-ng-1.4.14nm_aton/src/utils.c	Thu Jan 17 13:56:48 2002
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@
 #if !HAVE_INET_ATON
 int inet_aton(const char *cp, struct in_addr *addr)
 {
+	if(!strcmp(cp,"255.255.255.255")) {
+		addr->s_addr = 0xFFFFFFFF;
+		return 1;
+	}
+
 	addr->s_addr = inet_addr(cp);
 	if (addr->s_addr == -1) 
 		return 0;