[dba-Tech] Port 80

Quite right, Stuart. Thanks for rearranging the words in my mouth more
intelligently!

Arthur


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote:

> You misunderstand Arthur's problem.
>
> While lots of applications can send on a port, only one application can
> hook a
> port and listen on it at a time.
>
> He wants to set up something to listen on Port 80 but another program has
> already grabbed it
> and is listening for income traffic.  He is trying to find out what that
> program is.
>
>
> On 14 Aug 2013 at 16:20, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>
> > A lot of programs use port 80 so that should never be an issue.
> >
> > If you are using a router and have blocked port 80 blocked that will
> > cause such an error. Some programs may demand exclusive rights to a
> > port but that tends to be databases and no database I am aware of
> > defaults to port 80. My bet is it is nothing to do with the port being
> > blocked and is that in a particular application's configuration file
> > that has been configured wrong.
> >
> > Why don't you try this; check and copy your external IP address:
> > http://www.whatismyip.com and then put that IP address  in the
> > "Lookup" field, enter, select portscan and you can then see all the
> > ports that are open to the world.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:06:34 AM
> > Subject: [dba-Tech] Port 80
> >
> > I've got a conflict on port 80, and try as I might, I cannot figure out
> > which app is using it. I've tried netstat -o and the resulting list
> > contains no references to port 80. I'm really stumped on this one. Any
> > suggests gratefully appreciated.
> >
> > Incidentally, how does one get to the Control Panel in Windows 8? Perhaps
> > I've unwittingly enabled IIS, which I believe defaults to port 80.
> >
> > TIA
> > --
> > Arthur
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Arthur