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Understanding how ports work and how are they different from processes?
I've been a part of a network operations team for quite some time now and was extracting a certificate using this command:
openssl s_client -connect <IP>:<PORT> </dev/null | sed -n -e '/...
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why might nmap on a computer be reporting port 443 as closed on some but not all computers?
When I run nmap event-bridge.twilio.com on roughly half the computers in my network I get this:
PORT STATE SERVICE
443/tcp closed https
When I run it on the other half of the computers in my ...
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Nobody listens on port, yet something accepts connection on it
Here is some background information first, although it may not be relevant to the problem.
I am learning Kubernetes and I set up a cluster where pi-hole runs as a service. I can access the admin ...
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bitcoin-cli testnet : Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332
I've installed bitcoin-cli from here
I run the bitcoin core on Ubuntu 20.04 (AWS EC2).
mac-os also experiences similar problems.
Ubuntu 20.04 screen capture for the error messages
The commands I've ...
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What ports range is safe from taking by Windows 10
I wrote small program and I would like to use some TCP ports. Same ports for a longer period of time. The problem is each time Windows 10 wakes up it makes its mind which ports to reserve for its ...
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How can I do a bi-directional Port-Forwarding (flow encapsulation)?
I have two applications: a client and a server which communicate through port 1234. For some reasons this port is blocked on our system but everything works correctly on port 1235 (checked with two ...
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WebSocket connections originating from local network all use same client-side port (instead of ephemeral) when connecting to local webserver - Why?
I set up a webserver on a virtual machine on my home desktop. I have my router forward several ports (80, 443, etc) to my desktop, when then forwards them via NAT to the virtual machine (see diagram ...
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After opening port 443 in windows firewall as inbound rule, I cannot see it when I run 'netstat -an'
As an inbound rule on Windows 10 firewall, I added port 443 as TCP connection allowing all types of connections. However, I cannot see it when I run 'netstat -an'. How can I get it so that I see my ...
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java.exe opens up hundreds of ports on 127.0.0.1 on a windows 10 computer and listens to itself
After I ran netstat -ab with admin right on my win10 computer, which is not running anything "java" related on the desktop nor there is "java.exe" in taskmanager's "detailed ...
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Packet reaches OS but not the process
Sorry if my issue is a bit hard to summarize in the title. That is the best I could come up with.
TL;DR Version: How do I debug when packets reach OS, but not the destination process?
Explanation: I ...
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How can I know what is preventing my socket to bind to localhost:50060-50959
I am using this Python code to listen to a port on my Windows 10 system:
import socket
for port in (50059, 50060, 50959, 50960):
try:
print(socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)....
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how to run mincraft server on linux
I wish to run minecraft server om my linux mint 19.0, but I have some troubles, I can start it in local, and connect by 127.0.0.1:25565 but i can't run it on my ip in inthernet, 4 example my ip is 2....
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ipv4 and TCP/UDP ports: Multiple instances of the same program, same port number
I am trying to learn about ipv4, TCP and UDP protocols. I have read that the purpose of a port number being assigned in a TCP or UDP datagram is to ensure that the sending/receiving machines forward ...
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How does TCP handle multiple requests targeted to one port?
As a server may get many requests from clients at the same time to a particular port, for example port 80 for HTTP objects, how does the server handle simultaneous requests?
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Using lsof and fuser I can't find the process listening on a strange port
I've read other posts about finding the process ID and what's listening, but sadly couldn't get my issue solved. So, apologize if I missed some info about it.
Running netstat I found a port that I ...
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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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How to monitor TCP and UDP port changes
I am running software on a server that may be turning off some ports and need to find out what it is. I have the ports I need to check. I just need to find out what is turning them off. How can I ...
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Detect what outgoing ports are bypassed by firewall
My school has a firewall which limits most outgoing ports. There're only TCP/80, TCP/443, TCP/21 allowed. Is there's a way to find out all the outgoing port allowed by the firewall?
My current idea: ...
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Open TCP port in Windows 7 and read incoming data, what program to use?
I have an external device which can connect over GPRS to the Internet using a SIM card and I want to see what data it sends. I can program it to use my computer as a server and then use a program to ...
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Ports 1935 and 843 are getting blocked for no reason
I have Windows 7, and my computer has been blocking ports 1935 and 843 for no reason for a while now. If for example, I try to watch twitch, nothing will work because those two are getting blocked.
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TCP Connections/Session and Ports
I have some basic questions about ports and sessions.
Since all these are related and simple questions, I've asked them together:
I understand that for creating a connection we need a socket (ip+port)...
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How can I remap outgoing TCP ports?
Is there any way to remap a TCP port from a program were you not can change the port number?
The program talks on port 4321 and I want it to go out on port 14321 on the local computer.
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stopped a service but outgoing port still exists on netstat -aon
bit more detail....
I have a port, specifically port 2869 for Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service that uses UPnP port 2869, however even when turning off all the sharing possibilities I can ...
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Enabling access to a home server from "Internet" side
I wish to enable remote access to my linux home server, so I can use it when I'm not home.
I tried doing so using port forwarding as follows:
http://<RouterInternetIP>:<SomePort> => ...
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Program to record data transmission between two computers using a TCP port
I am looking for a way to view data being transmitted over a TCP port between two computers.
Is there a software package that allows this? I suppose I could script something to re-route data coming ...
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Why is port 1111 open, and is it safe to be?
I'm new to systems administration and have a server running a website with HTTP (at port 80), HTTPS (at port 443) and SSH (at port 22).
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04.
I did an Nmap port scan using my ...
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TCP port prioritizing on switch/router (QoS)
I have some HP ProCurve series Switch. There is a QoS option for prioritize traffic by TCP/UDP port. I set two ports: one with highest priority and another with lowest. Then I performed tests to ...
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Can not open port 6000 windows xp
I am trying to connect to macincloud using their software and can not. They told me the reason is port 6000 is not open. I spent 3 hours on the phone today with ATT making sure the 6000 port was open ...
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What is the purpose of ports?
I have a few questions in regard to the following explanation of ports I found.
The Application layer talks to the Transport layer through a port.
Ports are numbered and standard ...
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Cannot connect to guest OS from host OS
I have installed OpenSUSE on VMWare player as guest OS and my host OS is Windows XP. What I want to achieve is to send message from my host (i.e XP), say on port 7000 and receive it on a specific port ...
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How do networking ports work? Can I configure the ports that client and server use?
Let's say i have a "server" program listening on address 1.2.3.4:69 (i.e. remote port 69)
When i connect from a "client" program to it, typically i would specify the IP address + port of the target ...
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Tcp Port Open by Unknown Service
Running openSUSE 11.2 x86_64.
Here's what a nmap of my IP provides:
PORT STATE SERVICE
23/tcp open telnet
80/tcp open http
2800/tcp open unknown
8008/tcp open http
I would like ...
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How to know which protocol is used in data transfer and inspect that data?
I've a .net application for windows. This application transfers a lot of data to and from a particular server on a fix port no 8888. I tried 'Tcpview' but couldn't figure out anything useful. I only ...
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What does it mean when a portscan shows a port as "tcpwrapped"?
Interesting ports on 192.168.1.76:
Not shown: 998 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 5.2 (protocol 2.0)
62078/tcp open tcpwrapped
I see tcpwrapper ...
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What typically uses port 44380?
A company just asked me to open port 44380 in my firewall so that their software could work.
This made me wonder... what is the customary use for port 44380?
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