Re: Opening port on machine

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:28:45 -0700 cris.pini wrote:

There must be service listening on port 5505 to be successful with such a
simple "telnet test".

lsof -i :5505

Thx for this, running the lsof command above does not return anything
and I'm guessing this is because I haven't bound my service to the
port.

Basically, I'm running a network monitoring daemon process that is
listening for messages being carried over the socket via tcp using port
5505 on remote hosts. Do I need to bind this service to the port or
can't I just have an open port, if I need to bind can you advise as to
how this is done pls. Thx

You do not name that product, so it is difficult to answer for sure. But
"network monitoring daemon ... listening for messages" sounds like a
process which itself would bind on a network socket. Whether it is TCP or
UDP (like remote syslogd logging) can't be said from my side. If UDP, you
can't test it using telnet.
All further depends on that specific application and how it is to be
configured.

Alexander


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