finding out which port an app is trying to connect to?

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yawnmoth

I seem to recall there being some way one could view which ports were
being used by the currently open applications, via the command line.

eg. app a tries to connect to www.google.com:80 and this command line
tool would tell you.

Any ideas as to how one invokes this command?
 
yawnmoth said:
I seem to recall there being some way one could view which ports were
being used by the currently open applications, via the command line.

eg. app a tries to connect to www.google.com:80 and this command line
tool would tell you.

Any ideas as to how one invokes this command?
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Hi yawnmoth
You could try Aports which is a windows app for monitoring your open
ports (like the dos netstat command}
www.download.com/3000-2085-10062969.html
Some antivirus programs think it is malware (guess your not supposed the
see these kind of things :-)
 
yawnmoth said:
I seem to recall there being some way one could view which ports were
being used by the currently open applications, via the command line.

eg. app a tries to connect to www.google.com:80 and this command line
tool would tell you.
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Your browser may be trying to connect to port 80 at Google, but it's
not using port 80 on your computer. It's using a port number assigned
at random, though it will probably be above 1000. That's where
Google's response will be sent.
 
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