diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
index 423df765300..44b42ffa115 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
@@ -247,6 +247,17 @@ class GeneralModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
         except socket.error:
             pass
 
+    def testNtoH(self):
+        def twice(f):
+            def g(x):
+                return f(f(x))
+            return g
+        for i in (0, 1, 0xffff0000, 2L, (2**32L) - 1):
+            self.assertEqual(i, twice(socket.htonl)(i))
+            self.assertEqual(i, twice(socket.ntohl)(i))
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, socket.htonl, 2L**34)
+        self.assertRaises(OverflowError, socket.ntohl, 2L**34)
+
     def testGetServByName(self):
         """Testing getservbyname()."""
         if hasattr(socket, 'getservbyname'):
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index dee042b2061..39809f43fe0 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -2469,15 +2469,34 @@ Convert a 16-bit integer from network to host byte order.");
 
 
 static PyObject *
-socket_ntohl(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+socket_ntohl(PyObject *self, PyObject *arg)
 {
-	int x1, x2;
+	unsigned long x;
 
-	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i:ntohl", &x1)) {
-		return NULL;
+	if (PyInt_Check(arg)) {
+		x = PyInt_AS_LONG(arg);
 	}
-	x2 = ntohl(x1);
-	return PyInt_FromLong(x2);
+	else if (PyLong_Check(arg)) {
+		x = PyLong_AsUnsignedLong(arg);
+#if SIZEOF_LONG > 4
+		{
+			unsigned long y;
+			/* only want the trailing 32 bits */
+			y = x & 0xFFFFFFFFUL;
+			if (y ^ x)
+				return PyErr_Format(PyExc_OverflowError,
+					    "long int larger than 32 bits");
+			x = y;
+		}			
+#endif
+	}
+	else
+		return PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, 
+				    "expected int/long, %s found",
+				    arg->ob_type->tp_name);
+	if (x == (unsigned long) -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
+		return NULL;
+	return PyInt_FromLong(ntohl(x));
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(ntohl_doc,
@@ -2489,7 +2508,7 @@ Convert a 32-bit integer from network to host byte order.");
 static PyObject *
 socket_htons(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
-	int x1, x2;
+	unsigned long x1, x2;
 
 	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i:htons", &x1)) {
 		return NULL;
@@ -2505,15 +2524,34 @@ Convert a 16-bit integer from host to network byte order.");
 
 
 static PyObject *
-socket_htonl(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+socket_htonl(PyObject *self, PyObject *arg)
 {
-	int x1, x2;
+	unsigned long x;
 
-	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i:htonl", &x1)) {
-		return NULL;
+	if (PyInt_Check(arg)) {
+		x = PyInt_AS_LONG(arg);
 	}
-	x2 = htonl(x1);
-	return PyInt_FromLong(x2);
+	else if (PyLong_Check(arg)) {
+		x = PyLong_AsUnsignedLong(arg);
+#if SIZEOF_LONG > 4
+		{
+			unsigned long y;
+			/* only want the trailing 32 bits */
+			y = x & 0xFFFFFFFFUL;
+			if (y ^ x)
+				return PyErr_Format(PyExc_OverflowError,
+					    "long int larger than 32 bits");
+			x = y;
+		}			
+#endif
+	}
+	else
+		return PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError, 
+				    "expected int/long, %s found",
+				    arg->ob_type->tp_name);
+	if (x == (unsigned long) -1 && PyErr_Occurred())
+		return NULL;
+	return PyInt_FromLong(htonl(x));
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(htonl_doc,
@@ -2812,11 +2850,11 @@ static PyMethodDef socket_methods[] = {
 	{"ntohs",		socket_ntohs,
 	 METH_VARARGS, ntohs_doc},
 	{"ntohl",		socket_ntohl,
-	 METH_VARARGS, ntohl_doc},
+	 METH_O, ntohl_doc},
 	{"htons",		socket_htons,
 	 METH_VARARGS, htons_doc},
 	{"htonl",		socket_htonl,
-	 METH_VARARGS, htonl_doc},
+	 METH_O, htonl_doc},
 	{"inet_aton",		socket_inet_aton,
 	 METH_VARARGS, inet_aton_doc},
 	{"inet_ntoa",		socket_inet_ntoa,