What is using my damn port!?!?


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Okay..so after installing IIS and setting evrything up, I found out that I couldn't use my port 80 so i had to increase to 4000 in order for it to work. Which means that I have to add a :4000 after the actual URL and its quite annoying. Anyway, I decided to check what was uaing my remote port and found out that http://www.redswoosh.com was using one of them and that aol and msn.com were also using the damn port. Argh!! I dont know what to do! I want the server to use port 80, but i have no clue why those pograms are using it. Does MSN Messenger use port 80 or AOL? And what da hell is redwoosh!? I have never even heard of that site. This is getting quite annoying lol..Thanks in advance for any help or ideas :)

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msn doesnt use port 80....

Port 80 is for a webpage, are you running apache or any kind of web server? Maybe IIS, though I dont know because I dont use IIS anyways :)

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Originally posted by Binary

msn doesnt use port 80....

Port 80 is for a webpage, are you running apache or any kind of web server?

BTW the problem is that if i set IIS to use port 80 for the website..then people cant view it...cuz sumthin else is using it...i dunno..my first post ws kinda confusing..I dont have a web server...i have an ftp server..but i set it to use another port...and i dont have any other type of website server but IIS...

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In the screen shot you posted the port 80s in question are outbound connections to other computers from your own computer. That's normal, because if you use a web browser, you're connection on port 80 to other computers.

However, this isn't the same port 80 that people need to use to connect to you. You're inbound port 80 is most likely open on your own computer, but if other people can't connect to you most likely port 80 is being blocked by your ISP.

@Home and several DSL providers have blocked port 80 after the whole Code Red I/II/III fiasco. If this is the case for you, there's no way around the block. You would have to petition your ISP to open it for you. This is unlikely and if you called tech support, good luck on explaining the situation to the tech. ^_^

To verify that port 80 is open for connections on your computer, you can type "netstat -a" from a CMD prompt. In the list of connections you'll see a line similar to

TCP b0xen:80 b0xen:0 LISTENING

If you see this your web server is ready to accept connections on port 80.

I'm pretty sure that it's your ISP just blocking you here though.

Zoran

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Originally posted by zornr0t

In the screen shot you posted the port 80s in question are outbound connections to other computers from your own computer. That's normal, because if you use a web browser, you're connection on port 80 to other computers.

However, this isn't the same port 80 that people need to use to connect to you. You're inbound port 80 is most likely open on your own computer, but if other people can't connect to you most likely port 80 is being blocked by your ISP.

@Home and several DSL providers have blocked port 80 after the whole Code Red I/II/III fiasco. If this is the case for you, there's no way around the block. You would have to petition your ISP to open it for you. This is unlikely and if you called tech support, good luck on explaining the situation to the tech. ^_^

To verify that port 80 is open for connections on your computer, you can type "netstat -a" from a CMD prompt. In the list of connections you'll see a line similar to

TCP b0xen:80 b0xen:0 LISTENING

If you see this your web server is ready to accept connections on port 80.

I'm pretty sure that it's your ISP just blocking you here though.

Zoran

Ooo...I see..port 80 isnt on my list :( ahh damn them they should have given us a damn choice! Thanks so much..im gonna go ask wut da hell is up rite now..Thanks again
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Originally posted by hurting101

What program are you using in the screenshot?

Its just dns2go..gives u a free domain with a dns2go at the end..pretty cool...

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Them ######!! I called them up and asked about the port and stuff, and they said it was blocked due to CodeRed and he also said,how very nice of him, that it was illegeal to use a webserver, and that it was under the terms and conditions ((which like no1 reads)) aghh im really dissapointed..but of well..There isnt a way to not having to write the :4000 at the end of the URL and still make it work rite? Like some redirection thing or wutever..hmm i guess not..oh well back to Tripod and Angelfire it is lol

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There is an app called "Active Ports" (search on fileflash.com maybe?) that lets you kill the process which is taking up a port.

This probably wont help you but I find this app most useful.. especially when u want to see WHAT exactly is incoming and outgoing.

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