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Why is port not open? ufw disabled, service running

I have a mysql service running on ubuntu server on port 33070. I can connect to it locally, but not from outside(another machine). Here is what I've tried. ufw is off root@localhost:/# ufw status ...
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Win10: Cannot ping localhost / Windows Smart Screen does not work

I have an odd problem - I am unable to ping localhost. It just hangs until eventually dies with an error, or returns results. It seems that there is a huge delay in DNS lookup: In addition to that ...
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TCP RST when connecting via telnet to the application - Windows

I have an application running on Windows. The application listens on port 54000. I can connect to the application from the local machine and it works fine: telnet 127.0.0.1 54000 Now, I am trying to ...
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No Internet/Connection Timeout in Windows 10 UWP apps (Edge, Store, Mail) when proxy to localhost is enabled

Here's the problem: Windows 10 firewall seems to be hardcoded to block access from managed (UWP) apps to the localhost. No matter what firewall exception I add, as soon as I enable the proxy to any ...
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Cannot restart apache on Centos 7

I cannot restart HTTPD on Centos 7. When I try to run the command it shows this error below. How can I overcome this? -- -- Unit session-735.scope has begun starting up. Apr 12 15:33:01 localhost....
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I accidentally opened a localhost port?

I had accidentally opened a port via firewall which had a WEBSITE(IIS EXPRESS) localhost port number. So could my desktop be hacked by opening a port? And also i had deleted it after a few minutes.
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McAfee firewall blocks localhost in subprocess only

This is a programming-related question but seemed more appropriate for SuperUser than StackOverflow. I have installed McAfee (a trial version of LiveSafe -- Internet Security) on my PC. I am running ...
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How to stop mac from auto port forwarding requests from localhost?

I have an application that is running and listening for local requests on port 4001. Whenever I start a second application to place requests through port 4001 my mac appears to be automatically ...
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Does Apache need firewall access for code server requests?

Would just like quick clarification on something. For a development stack such as LAMP or XAMPP for a local server; does Apache require access over the firewall (e.g. port 80) if, for instance, some ...
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Bypassing proxy for loopback/locahost

I am developing a web application where in I am running a webserver at localhost:3000 and my app is deployed on the same. Access to this URL through a web browser works fine because there is an ...
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Firewall blocks localhost but only if it's turned on

I run XAMPP server on my Windows XP. If I try to access to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 it gives me this error: Could not connect to remote server This only occurs if my Comodo firewall is ...
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Deny access to a port from localhost on OSX

I want to test a fallback strategy for my memcached driver (in case port is protected by firewall). How can I deny access to a specific port, on 127.0.0.1?
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does http://localhost/myapp from a desktop PC on a Windows network go through network firewall?

I am trying to find out if the (hardware) firewall on our network would be scanning packets when I type this in a browser window: http://localhost:51502/myapp. Would "localhost" packets be ...
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How can I block external access to my local Apache test server on OS X?

I use the built-in Apache 2 that comes with OS X (10.6.8 in my case) for development. I've been looking in access logs and seen I'm constantly poked from outside by nosy bots. I'd like to make it stop ...
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Corporate firewall blocking localhost/127.0.0.1

Is there some way I can access this without having it go through the corporate firewall at work? I'd like to set up a quick little production (WAMP) environment before moving things to the final ...
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