Questions tagged [socket]
is a data communications endpoint for exchanging data between processes executing within the same host operating system.
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Process in Android making UDP connection not registered anywhere
Google gms is listening on a port using UDP protocol but /proc/net/udp does not display the socket neither /proc/pid/fd displays any socket with inode(only anonpipes) anyone knows why this happens? If ...
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How to send literal string over TCP (netcat/socat-like), but provided by command arguments?
If I want to send a string over TCP in a shell environment, I can do something like:
echo text | nc 1.2.3.4 9876
Cool. Interactively, that works. Now I want to do this programmatically by spawning a ...
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How can I find out which processes are using or listening on which network interfaces?
ifconfig lists several network interfaces, some of which are virtual ones.
How can I find out which processes are using or listening on which network interfaces? Thanks.
$ ifconfig
docker0: flags=...
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What IP address(es) can't be bound to a listening socket?
What IP address(es) can't be bound to a listening socket?
For example, can a server process bind 255.255.255.255 to a listening socket?
Thanks.
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Why does postgresql server have a `localhost:57504` to `localhost:57504` UDP “connection”?
$ sudo netstat -ap | grep postg
tcp 0 0 localhost:postgresql 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1567/postgres
udp 0 0 localhost:57504 localhost:57504 ...
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Why is mysql server accepting nonlocal request, while postgresql server is not?
By default configurations, why is mysql server accepting nonlocal request, while postgresql server is not?
$ nmap -p0-65535 192.168.1.97
Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-03-20 14:34 ...
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Why can't `lsof` report some open port's information? [duplicate]
I am running this with the IP address of the same machine:
$ nmap -p0-65535 192.168.1.198
Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-03-20 10:13 EDT
Nmap scan report for olive.fios-router.home (...
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Is it possible to view the bytes I sent over a network connection?
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04. I'm debugging an application that communicates with a remote server and I'd like to be able to directly view the bytes sent from my machine (rather than relying on debug output). ...
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How Can I Kill Sockets Related to Services on Localhost?
I am trying to close sockets related to my webserver so the client does not have to refresh the browser twice to connect to the new webserver.
I have successfully written a bash script which can ...
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Is there any way to know how many sockets have been created by a C program?
I have been running a C program which connects to a Redis database every once in a while. After running the program for a few hours it was displaying "Cannot create socket: too many files open". I'm ...
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How to access the floating ip in browser rather than a localhost?
I have an instances that was made in OpenStack which have a floating IP for its instance, the IP for this machine is 10.1.1.164. I tried to forward this instances so it will accessible in my firefox ...
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How many connections can there be between two Unix domain sockets?
From APUE:
17.3 Unique Connections
A server can arrange for unique UNIX domain connections to clients
using the standard bind, listen, and accept functions. Clients
use connect to ...
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Milter for Sendmail not sending data over socket - very little documentation, any ideas?
I have configured Milter for sendmail on a virtual machine. I can send an email in my test environment, it is currently accepted by Sendmail and relayed to my exchange server (including when I enable ...
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Must an application-layer protocol exist for communication between any two programs using sockets?
When any two programs, no matter how simple or complicated, communicate by internet domain sockets (or Unix domain sockets), does it necessarily imply that there is an application-layer protocol ...
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Debian: Cannot access opened port in US from EU
On debian 9 I have opened port 0.0.0.0:18000 using python 3, but I cannot access it from outside (target machine actively refused it). I have no firewalls.
I suspected that it might be because I'm ...
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What characterizes a file in Linux/Unix?
What characterizes a file in Linux/Unix?
A file can have many types: regular file, directory, symlink, device file, socket, pipe, fifo, and more that I miss. For example, a symlink:
$ sudo file /...
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Linux's Internet domain socket, transport protocols (TCP/UDP)'s socket and port
I have been bothered for a long while by some confusions among
internet domain socket provided by Linux,
transport protocols (TCP/UDP)'s socket and
transport protocols (TCP/UDP)'s port.
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Understanding the term “socket” in the Unix/Linux context
I understand that the term "socket" can mean two different things in the Unix/Linux context:
A Unix socket; the interface between 2 or more processes.
An IP socket; the interface between a process ...
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How do I make systemd sockets close when service is stopped?
I'm currently trying to make a systemd service with two Fifo sockets. These sockets map to stdout and stdin of the application. I'm currently using the following configuration files.
foo.service
[...
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How is “Forwarding can be also done through Unix sockets” done?
https://zaiste.net/ssh_port_forwarding/#remote-port-forwarding
Remote port forwarding is created with -R parameter.
ssh -R source_port:forward_to_host:destination_port via_host
This command ...
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How can I verify that the port forwarding is established by checking the sockets?
After I run
$ ssh -L 9000:google.com:80 testme@localhost
how can I verify that the port forwarding is established by checking the sockets (internet and unix domain sockets)?
Thanks.
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AIX “rmsock” showing wrong pid listening to a tcp4 port
How to get the real listener PID in AIX 7.1? Shouldn't rmsock work as widely described on the internet?
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1019570
The case:
There is a program that ...
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Listen to specific event types via process netlink connector
I'm authoring a user app that would listen to process events via the process netlink connector.
While listening on the socket, my process spends a lot of time doing busy work because of lots of ...
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Does Linux kernel create a file for an Internet domain socket? [duplicate]
The Linux kernel creates a file for a Unix domain socket bound to a pathname.
Does the Linux kernel create a file for an Internet domain socket?
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Linux kernel does not handle orphaned sockets, why not?
This was originally posted to serverfault but was voted as off topic by the community.
Let me just preface this question by mentioning I understand the why/how/where/when of the Linux kernel socket ...
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How to sniff a socket without using socat?
I would like to do socket sniffing, but I'm wondering what options there to do without using socat? I can't use that command, since it's not already installed (and I cannot install it). I thought ...
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Why doesn't `netstat` show Screen client but only Screen server process?
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/485290/674
Further down in the netstat output is UNIX sockets:
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State ...
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Whose `I-Node` does `netstat -ap` for unix domain sockets refer to?
What does I-Node mean in the output of netstat -ap for unix domain sockets?
It seems not the same as the inode of the socket file:
$ netstat -ap
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Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and ...
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What is the IP address of my local interface that is required by IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP?
In this man page http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/ip.7.html, it is written that IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP can be used to join a multicast group. We need to provide, as input, in particular, the IP ...
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Delay between TCP send and actual write to the NIC
While looking for solution to a problem in socket programming with python described here (In short the problem is: I want my message(~ 25 Bytes) sent by a client over a TCP socket to be dispatched(...
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Problem with find excluding files of type socket when creating tar archive
I am trying to make a tar archive of all files in my /var directory. Naturally, I want to exclude the Unix sockets in there.
So I try a command that looks something like:
sudo find /var \! -type s ...
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Retrieving the SO_INCOMING_CPU of a UDP Socket?
The socket API provides an SO_INCOMING_CPU option, the details of which are provided in the man page:
SO_INCOMING_CPU (gettable since Linux 3.19, settable since Linux 4.4)
Sets or gets ...
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When I see a bunch of `write: broken pipe ` errors for a process what does it mean ?
When I see a bunch of write: broken pipe errors for a process what does it mean ?
level=error msg="attach: stdout: write unix /var/run/docker.sock->@: write: broken pipe"
Does this mean this ...
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Websocket server won't connect if started via PHP
I have a websocket server written in Node. The following instruction, when executed from the command line starts the websocket server successfully:
nohup "/root/.nvm/versions/node/v8.11.1/bin/node" "/...
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max no of tcp connections on a linux system
I know that /etc/security/limits.conf provides the persistent soft and hard limits for several values.
However, in the relevant list there is no indication about imposed limits on:
a) concurrent ...
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How to close one side of a TCP connection leaving other side hanging open? (No FIN or RST sent)
I am trying to recreate a scenario where a Solaris client is connected to a Linux server via TCP socket, but the client side of the connection suddenly goes down without sending sending a FIN or RST ...
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How does bind(2) choose a network device?
Background
I'm looking to write kernel-space implementations of a non-IP network protocol and associated network device driver (non-ethernet hardware). I found some resources on developing the ...
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Understanding output of lscpu
You can see the output from lscpu command -
jack@042:~$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 56
On-...
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Cannot access MySQL Database - PID file could not be found
I am using a Linux Server from GoDaddy, and without any known reason, PID file could not be found! These are the errors I got:
# mysql
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through ...
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Increase buffer size of Unix domain datagram socket in systemd unit file
I use Unix domain datagram socket for unidirectional daemon communication.
Process writing to the socket may get blocked on write(), at some peaks of computation, because reading process takes more ...
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IPv4 and IPv6 sockets with same port
Is it possible to have a single process that would have two sockets, one using the AF_INET and one using the AF_INET6 families, while both being bound to the same port number, e.g. 20000?
If the IPv6 ...
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How to run adb in initramfs?
Seem my hook is work(sometime first run is failed but again run is seem no any library problem), Seem lack socket support in initramfs?my system is debian 9.Seem normal debian system provide socket ...
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Socket Buffer Size and Performance
We want to set our application's socket buffer size from 1500 bytes to 65536 bytes to be generically handle message packet which has larger than 1500 bytes. In this case, will it affect the ...
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WebSocket Protocol stumper [closed]
I am writing an embedded WebSocket server and working directly from the relevant RFC.
My server responds properly to the upgrade request from the browser and the browser, in its example javascript, ...
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Regulating user-daemons from listening on unprivileged ports (preventing server spoofing)?
If I have a port >1024 but that I want to reserve to one executable how can I ensure that no other executable can open and listen to a socket on that port?
/usr/bin/foo_srv -p 8080
/usr/bin/bar_srv -...
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Socket already in use, but is not listed (mpd)?
Running
$ mpd
I am prompted with
socket: Failed to bind to '127.0.0.1:6600': Address already in use
But if I run:
$ sudo service mpd start
and check its status, I get
systemd[1]: Started ...
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How does an OpenVPN tune in all the traffic going into tun0?
First of all, I understand that the kernel routing table makes all the outbound traffic forwarded to tun0. However, they're NOT going to the IP address that the local tun0 interface has (e.g., 10.13....
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Get IP address of socket used by process
given a process Id (that use sockets), I would like to get the IP on socket endpoints.
e.g When new SSH session is created, the sshd demon fork process per session. I want to get the IP endpoints ...
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IPTables vs AF_PACKET sockes
I just discovered a security issue, I was reviewing my IP tables rules, and discovered that there was no rule for DHCP traffic (I have DROP-policy for all chains), but I still get IP-address, subnet-...
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systemd service - udp broadcast can't reach other machine
I have a service located under /usr/lib/systemd/system. This service runs the app that i've been developing (.net core 2.0). Same app runs on different machines (centos7 both). They use udp sockets to ...
