How to get sockets which are listening on a specific port in linux?

Question

An application may be binding multiple sockets to a specific port,how can I get those sockets command line?

Answer 1

lsof will also provide you with information about open sockets:

$ lsof -i TCP:17500        
COMMAND PID    USER   FD   TYPE     DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
Dropbox 244 username  19u  IPv4 0x05584748      0t0  TCP *:17500 (LISTEN)

Answer 2

Netstat can provide you this information :

petrus@srv:~$ sudo netstat -taunp
Connexions Internet actives (serveurs et établies)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Adresse locale          Adresse distante        Etat        PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:4949          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      7837/munin-node 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      6399/sshd       
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:56317           0.0.0.0:*                           9639/rpc.statd  
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:911             0.0.0.0:*                           9639/rpc.statd  

Output shortened for clarity.

Answer 3

If you are using *bsd system (I don't know if it exist for linux and other *nix), there is this socksat command, which does what you are looking for.