Questions tagged [netstat]

analysis tool for statistics about active connections, open sockets, routing tables; in general the networking subsystem.

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How to check opened/closed ports on my computer?

How to check the opened/closed ports on my computer? I used netstat -a on command line. Does the port status "LISTENING" indicate that the port is open? Is any port, that is not shown in the output, ...
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How to find the running network services and the port and user

I want to find a list of all network services running on my system, including details of the port and services and the users. I know that I need to use netstat, ps and fuser. but I don't know how to ...
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What's the difference between port status "LISTENING", "TIME_WAIT", " CLOSE_WAIT" and "ESTABLISHED"?

I use netstat to check my port status. I was wondering what's the difference between port status LISTENING, TIME_WAIT, CLOSE_WAIT, FIN_WAIT1 and ESTABLISHED?
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netstat or alternative in docker ubuntu server 16.04 container

Was netstat removed in 16.04? Is there an alternative to netstat available in 16.04? Or how do I install netstat in 16.04? I am running an ubuntu:16.04 container in docker for Windows, it seems that ...
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Strange connections by gvfsd-http --spawner

For a little while now, a strange connection has been showing up on my netstat made by the command: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.1 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2 By the time I notice it, the ...
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Something is listening on port 53

I want to set up bind9, but something is listening on port 53. It's local address is ubuntu.ubuntu-do:domain. How to disable it, so it wouldn't listen anymore? I think it is dnsmasq, but still I don't ...
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Linphone: could not start tls transport on port 5060, maybe this port is already used?

update: Probably this is because of NAT, although that might an Ekiga specific problem. I've tried multiple clients on this machine, cannot get any SIP clients to work for me. On the same network, ...
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