A "listening" port

[Mr Coetzee]

Good day

I installed a service on the local server but my clients could not access it (telnet also failed for that port).
netstat reveals a number of "listening" ports (telnet successful form client). Can I install my service using one of those ports? Or is it being used by another service?

Regards
Brent

 

[Leno]

Yeah if the port is listed under netstat then its being used by a service already.

Make sure the port is not only listening on 127.0.0.1 but on all ip's (0.0.0.0 on some distributions)

 

[Mr Coetzee]

Will do, thanks Leno.

 

[syntax]

Good day

I installed a service on the local server but my clients could not access it (telnet also failed for that port).
netstat reveals a number of "listening" ports (telnet successful form client). Can I install my service using one of those ports? Or is it being used by another service?

Regards
Brent

It means that port is being used. A service is waiting and listening on that port.
Pick another one that is not shown and when your service starts up it should then be showed as "listening"