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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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