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What are network ports internally? [closed]

I know there will be multiple ports in the host/computing machine for each of the services that i hosts on the network. But i want to understand what are these ports internally? Below is my ...
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Access local webserver on port 8080 in home network using IP-Address

this is quite new to me so I hope it is clear what I try to ask. On my windows 10 pro I have installed a small application which runs as a webserver on port 8080. I can access it using localhost:8080 ...
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How are source ports determined and how can I force it to use a specific port

When I connect to https://www.google.co.uk this changes to 216.58.198.228:443. Then a connection to me opens on [My IP Address]:63998. My question is how is 63998 port choosen and is there a way of ...
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Cannot open a connection from a PC but the host can be reached from other computers

When I use telnet to try a port on a server, I get the following: telnet x.x.x.x xxxx Connecting To x.x.x.x...Could not open connection to the host, on port xxxx: Connect failed ...
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What are the default nmap options?

Which options are used by default, when the user fires # nmap target without any explicit option? I am going to write the defaults of the three options I consider the most important. It would be ...
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IPTables - Redirect traffic based on country

Is there any way how to allow TCP traffic only from specified countries on a specified port and the rest of traffic redirect to another IP/port using iptables ?
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Can two different applications bind the same port on a host if they use different protocols?

my question is quite clear I think. If two applications use different transport layer protocols (e.g. TCP and UDP or something else) can they open the same port number? How does the OS do the ...
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Where do I start to troubleshoot this strange activity from my firewall?

I noticed that my firewall yesterday blocked outgoing attempts starting at port 61494 and worked its way up to 62381, making a TCP outgoing attempt at each port once. The remote IP address seems ...
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Tcp connection target machine actively refused

I have a simple TCP client/server program on two laptops. The server should work fine as I use "netstat -anb" and the server shows up as listening, "0.0.0.0:102", then my client connection failed, ...
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What ports are used by an application [duplicate]

I'm testing an application which opens its own ports (acts as a server for these ports, hence listens at that ports) and where the same application connects to ports bound by other applications (acts ...
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List all open sockets in /dev/tcp/localhost/

Is it possible to list all open sockets in /dev/tcp/localhost/ on a Linux machine? I want to list all sockets where the following command would return 0: timeout 2 bash -c "cat < /dev/null > /...
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TCP server listen and client listen windows software

I am using Windows OS on an amazon cloud AWS with static public IP. On this machine I need to set up a TCP server to listen on port 2204 for raw data that will arrive from a GPS base station over TCP ...
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Hiding port number from address.

I have centos 6.5 running some web apps. Currently due the following port forwarding rules, I am only able to access my public content using 127.0.0.1:8080/ Is there anyone to just use 127.0.0.1 ...
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How to force a process transmit over UDP instead of TCP?

I 'm running an ffserver process on a Linux machine, in order to achieve video streaming via ffmpeg. However, there is a delay on video streaming. On ffserver configuration file I define Port 8090. ...
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Is the same port acting as both client and server?

i find something strange in this netstat output. the output is taken using netstat -a -n -o -p TCP command on win 7. Proto Local Address Foreign Address State PID TCP ...
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