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Unknown process on port, lsof no help, nfs-kernel-server?

During a standard security sweep we found out a something was listening on a port unknown to us, 2030, and we are having trouble determining the source. # netstat -anp | grep LIST tcp 0 0 ...
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IPTables - Change Port of outgoing and incoming packets

Is it possible to configure IPTables in a way that all outgoing packets to a certain IP and Port are altered with a different port and do the same for incoming packets? I have to work with a server ...
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iptables and multiple ports

This doesn't work fir me: # iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dports 110,143,993,995 -j ACCEPT iptables v1.4.7: unknown option `--dports' Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. ...
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Hiding non-standard ports in the address bar?

Some applications (such as Plone) default to serving http on ports other than 80 (eg 8080). Typically, to view those webapps you need to load http://mysite.tld:8080 instead of just http://mysite.tld ...
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Solaris ethernet ports: e1000g1 and e1000g2 are not working

I can plumb and configure e1000g0 and e1000g3 using ifconfig, but I can't seem to make use of e1000g1 or e1000g2. When I try ifconfig e1000g1 plumb, I get ifconfig: plumb: e1000g1: Invalid argument. ...
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CentOS port closed even when iptables is stopped

I've recently got a VPS running CentOS 6.X, I installed Gnome and configured VNC. vncserver is running fine, but I can't connect to it. I checked the ports from outside and noticed that port 5901 is ...
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Site works on one port but not another

I'm writing a website that I'm having some trouble getting online with a Debian server using Apache2. When I run the site on port 8080 (i.e. www.example.com:8080), the whole thing runs fine and the ...
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iptables has port 80 open but nmap shows it closed

I'm having some troubles getting a Debian webserver to open up port 80 for HTTP traffic. In my iptables, I opened up port 80 using the following commands: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ...
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Protecting direct access to port 11211 via a browser (memcached)

When I recently discovered about accessing ports via your browser at a domain level. Example, I accessed my domain at port 11211, I got an output of this: ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ...
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Can I change the port for SSH on a hosted server?

I am changing over to a hosted server and I want to use non-standard ports for SSH. Is this possible? Wouldn't I have to have access to the router, in order to forward ports?
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Opening up port 8080 in CentOS

I'm new to opening up ports in CentOS. I need to open up tcp port 8080 and have installed/ran nmap to find it is not open already. I've been reading about the iptables command, I have v1.3.5 installed ...
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Setting up CruiseControl and phpUnderControl (Ubuntu)

Ok, so I've tried setting up phpUnderControl following this tutorial: http://techportal.ibuildings.com/2009/03/03/getting-started-with-phpundercontrol/ I had a few problems throughout which I managed ...
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Opening port 5432 on ubuntu

I am trying to open port 5432 on ubuntu using ufw using sudo ufw allow 5432/tcp I then use nmap to see if port 5432 was opened and i get this: root@domain:~# sudo nmap -sS -O 127.0.0.1 Starting ...
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Why is my IMAP port not showing as open ( yet it works? )

Ive recently setup Postfix and Dovecot IMAP on a Debian Lenny box. Sending to this domain works fine and reading the email via IMAP works fine too. I'm curious though as to why when running nmap, port ...
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Hyperlinking to a site with port 443

I am having trouble finding a way to hyperlink to https://secure.mysite.net:443 I tried: <a href="https://secure.mysite.net:443/">HTTPS SSL</a> However it simply takes me to ...
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nmap on my webserver shows TCP ports 554 and 7070 open

I have a webserver that hosts various websites for me. The two services that are accessible outside are SSH and Apache2. These are running on a non-standard and standard port, respectively. All other ...
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3COM Switches that have 1000Base-X SFP ports

I have been upgrading switches at the company I work for and their technology here is prehistoric, but the new switches I have received from my director are the 3COM 2928-SFP Plus. I have been reading ...
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mstsc.exe keeps on conflicting with other application intermitently

I am wondering how can you know who is running the mstsc.exe? I have recently in my PC that the mstsc.exe listens to the port that I am using. I read that mstsc.exe is used by the remote desktop. Also ...
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iphones and exchange, what am I missing?

I am trying to get iphones to play with our exchange 2010 server. I have opened ports 25 and 993 on the firewall, and I can get the account to validate, but I cannot send or receive email from it. ...
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AWS - Load balance to different clusters

So I'm using ELB to load balance incoming requests. Is it possibile to make the ELB listen on two ports and, for example, route all the request made to port 80 to a specific set of instances, and ...
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Site not working, not sure how to open the ports

We are running a VPS on win2008. I have two static IP's that are configured for one NIC (probably all virtually because it's a VPS). In the firewall I have a rule to allow traffic inbound on ports 80 ...
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Does changing default port number actually increase security?

I have seen advice saying you should use different port numbers for private applications (e.g. intranet, private database, anything that no outsider will use). I am not entirely convinced that can ...
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OpenVPN port-share with apache 443/10443 not working

I configured openvpn (OpenVPN 2.1.0) and apache 2 ( to listen respectively on 443 and 10443 (with modssl). The two applications are listening well: tcp 0 0 x.x.x.x:10443 ...
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Do I have to open a port for mod_proxy and ProxyPass to work?

Here's my situation: I have a server running Apache on port 80, a node.js application on port 8000, and I'd like to know if I have to open ports in order for ProxyPass and mod_proxy to work. Related ...
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What's the difference between a daemon listening on 10.0.2.15:53 and a daemon listening on 0.0.0.0:53?

I wanted to know the difference between these two states, I just did a netstat -anob on my 2008 R2 testing machine.
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netstat shows a listening port with no pid but lsof does not

This question is similar to Network port open, but no process attached? I've tried everything from there, reviewed the logs, etc... and can't find anything. My netstat shows a TCP listening port and ...
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Port 1499 traffic to my Exchange 2003 server - what is it?

I'm seeing a lot of traffic going to my Exchange 2003 server from client machines on TCP port 1499. (The reason they are traversing the firewall is because the clients are at remote site connected via ...
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Port Knocking and TCP/IP within the OSI model

I have read that Port Knocking can be subject to false negative (type II error) due to the optimization techniques of TCP/IP. A correct port knock given by the client may be read as incorrect by the ...
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Which port of my computer is my ISP connected to? [closed]

I'm trying to find out the port number of my computer to which my ISP actually connects & provides the internet service, given my ADSL modem is operating in Bridge Mode instead of PPPoE. I ...
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DNS unavailable; IP address shared by 4 websites. How to extract numerical addresses of each website?

Preliminary note: our DNS service is down, and I have no access to the website settings; I am just a team member trying to help people who need the website right now. Four websites share the same IP ...
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Restrict Port range to a user

On a server with several users I'm looking to reserve port ranges so that only one user has access to a specific port range, IE user1: 2000-2005 user2: 2006,3003 user3: 1025 In doing so, an ...
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Open Ports: Apache vs. IIS

I just had an interesting meeting with security guys and the main point of this meeting I wanted to have some backup on is: Apache is secure, because it only needs port 80 and 443 (for http and https ...
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Prevent Shorewall log entries for specific IP address and/or port

I have Shorewall firewall setup on a Debian server which is working fine. I get various log entries in /var/log/messages when packets are dropped, as expected, for example: Aug 17 19:09:07 cheetah ...
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Which UDP ports are required to resolve external hosts?

Today I asked my hoster to block all UDP ports except port 53. Due to daily UDP attacks, this was currently the only option to stop flooding my lines. Now since the block is in place, I cannot wget ...
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Port 3306 stopped working

I can ping to mysql server but can not telnet to 3306 port. # ping 10.10.10.99 PING 10.10.10.99 (10.10.10.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.10.10.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.128 ms 64 bytes ...
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Why can I fetch from web server via loopback but not IP?

I have a web server (Thin) running on a non-standard port on my Ubuntu 10.04 Server box. I can access the web server via the loopback interface, but not the public IP. Why, and how do I fix the ...
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close port 10180

This morning I ran zenmap against our domain controller (windows 2003 server) and found an unknown open port Discovered open port 10180/tcp on 192.xxx.xxx.xxx Through various google searches I ...
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Understanding Ports: How do multiple browser tabs communicate at the same time? [closed]

I realized today that I fundamentally don't understand how port communication works. If I fire up an instance of a webserver listening on port 80, it can respond to many requests from many different ...
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How to configure jetty to listen to multiple ports?

I just want to configure jetty to listen to more than one port. I don't want multiple instances nor multiple webapps, just one jetty, one webapp, but listening to 2 or more ports. The default way ...
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How to find the program responsible for a specific TCP socket (linux)

joe@server:~$ sudo lsof -i :36168 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME java 23059 activemq 15u IPv6 109382 0t0 TCP *:36168 (LISTEN) From the output above I want ...
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Help: Enable Ports

I'm trying to enable a few ports, as I have a php script that uses sockets. I added the following to my httpd.conf file: Listen 6112 Listen 6113 However, when I execute my php script, it says the ...
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Assistance with opening additional ports - CentOS

I'm trying to open an additional outgoing port on my VPS (port 5900). Here is my /etc/sysconfig/iptables: # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Sun Jul 10 11:27:12 2011 *mangle :PREROUTING ACCEPT ...
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Multiple web-services all running on port 80 with IPTABLES

I'm basically wondering what is best practice when running multiple web-services that all need to be on port 80 without using something like nginx as a proxy. The following solution is actually ...
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how can a server handle lots of port 80 connections

Admittedly this is a simple question but 20 minutes of googling and I just can't find an answer... I will frame my question with an example. say I own www.reallypopular.com and my website sees 100 ...
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Which ports to open for Hyper-V

We have two physical servers on the different area protected by firewalls. We want to build Hyper-V cluster for this servers. We found the article from Microsoft VMM Ports and Protocols, but there are ...
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Which ports to open for DB Mirroring

We have two physical servers on the different area protected by firewalls. We need to use DB Mirroring for our purpose. So which ports we need to open between two area for using MS SQL 2008 DB ...
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Access host computer's (IIS7) localhost:33369 from virtualbox IE6

trying to setup my virtualbox copy of windows xp and have it be able to access my host computer's (win7) IIS 7 express localhost:33369 the virtualbox ipconfig IP Address: 10.10.2.15 subnet: ...
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Cent OS firewall opening port

I've installed postgre on a CentOS server. I basically followed this guide here: PostgreSQL On the last step it says I need Open TCP port 5432 and to do so I need to add the following line to my ...
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where is information about virtual directories stored?

Server hosted somewhere on internet just broke down, so guys from IT support decided to install Linux temporarily so we can access file system in order to do backup. We have there some web services ...
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Deploy multiple applications in Cherokee and distinguish them by port?

I am having an issue on deploying applications with Cherokee web server. The thing is I need to host various Django applications in the same machine and distinguish each one by ports (i.e. app1 in ...

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