[asterisk-users] Why is this happening?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Monday 16 October 2006 17:25, Time Bandit wrote:
> Same thing happens with a webserver. It listen for connections on port
> 80 (default port) and when a connection comes in, it is handed to
> another free port on the server so the "main" server can continue

You've got a very poor grasp on how things work.  Please don't pretend to know 
what you're talking about.

# netstat -apn | grep :80
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
782/httpd
tcp        0      0 204.xxx.yyy.188:80        80.xxx.yyy.167:58620     
ESTABLISHED 814/httpd
tcp        0      0 204.xxx.yyy.188:80        62.xxx.yyy.15:55384     
ESTABLISHED 1068/httpd
tcp        0      0 204.xxx.yyy.188:80        165.xxx.yyy.230:4392      
ESTABLISHED 1084/httpd
tcp        0      0 204.xxx.yyy.188:80        65.xxx.yyy.111:6982      
TIME_WAIT   -
tcp        0      0 204.xxx.yyy.188:80        200.xxx.yyy.43:8198      
ESTABLISHED 817/httpd
tcp        0      0 204.xxx.yyy.188:80        165.xxx.yyy.230:4304      
ESTABLISHED 815/httpd

As you can see, I am *still* listening on port 80 and have numerous 
connections from different systems, even numerous connections from the same 
system.

-A.