Re: [cobalt-users] Configuring ports

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexandre Siufy wrote:

> JL> Ports are closed by default.  They're opened by applications that use
> JL> them.  Any port you'd want opened would have to be opened by the
> JL> application using it.
> 
>     OK,  my problem is that I have an application that SHOULD BE using
>     port  8400, but its requests are not reaching the destination. So,
>     I  wonder if I need to enable that port somewhere in my machine to
>     get that application to communicate using that port.

Not knowing anything about the application, I can't help you with it. 
If it's accepting packets, then you can use telnet to test it.

And you can check the logs to see if it's returning any errors, or in
fact if it runs or just exits without running.

How do you know it's not using the port.  What's supposed to be
happening that isn't?

>     Well,  that's how I thought things worked, until I didn't get that
>     application  to  "talk"  to  port  8400...  This  looks  like  the
>     application's fault, and not my RaQ...

Maybe...

> JL> Please write onlist, so others may benefit as well.
> 
>     I  just  hit  reply, I didn't notice it wasn't going to the lists.
>     Actually,  I  checked  your previous messages, and they don't have
>     the list address on the headers...

The list reply-to isn't always working; I had to just change the address
on this post, or else it would have gone straight to you <frown>.  Since
other people are reporting the problem as well, we know it's NOT our
mail clients, but rather something wrong at the Cobalt/Mailman end.

Cobalt... are you listening <smile>?

Jeff
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