Re: How to know a server is running on a specified port?

From: Kevin McDonnell [MSFT] (kevmc_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/30/03


Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:44:09 GMT

Hey Gordon,
   Our MDAC 2.6 and greater clients will send a UDP packet to the server to
determine what port the server's listening on as long as it's a Named
Instance.

Otherwise, the NT admin or SQL Admin would have to tell the client what
port they're listening on. Typically, if you were to roll out an
application that was listening on an alternate port, you would either
instruct the clients how to connect or configure an alias for them. The
only other way a client could find this information out would be to port
scan the remote machine.

265808 INF: How to Connect to an SQL Server 2000 Named Instance with the
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=265808

286303 INF: Behavior of SQL Server 2000 Network Library During Dynamic Port
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=286303

Thanks,

Kevin McDonnell
Microsoft Corporation

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