[NBLUG/talk] Cannot bind to a port

[Todd Cary]

Ron -

I do not know why I have kept ducking the answer to whether I was 
running as root...must be some subconcious adversion :-) !  Yes, I have 
been logged in as su (root).

On my router, I have NAT sending it to 192.168.0.22.

This is really baffling since I often have my "play box" set to some 
other port, but I do not know enough about the inner workings of Linux 
to make an educated guess as to what is going on.

I'll try using the IP:8090 in httpd.conf....

Could you explain a little more about ipV6?  Not sure what it/you mean....

Todd

Ron Wickersham wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:23:54 -0700
>>From: Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com>
>>To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,
>>    etc." <talk at nblug.org>
>>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Cannot bind to a port
>>
>>OK...it can start if port 80 or port 8080 is specified, however 8081 or
>>8090 will not work.
>>
>>Port 80 is used by my HTTP server running on another box and port 8080
>>is used by the router.
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>hi Todd,
>
>go ahead an use port 80 then on this box.  (it won't interfere with port
>80 on another box on your network).
>
>someone else asked if you were starting it up as root and i don't remember
>you answering.   and also the error messages you get still look as if it's
>trying to bind to an ipV6 address.  you could try saying instead of
>listen *:81
>change to
>listen 123.456.12.34:81
>with your machine's actual ip address in the listen line.  (like the
>commented out example just above the *:81.
>
>-ron
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