[Asterisk-Users] Cannot telnet to port 5038 on asterisk

[Steve Daniels]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tzafrir Cohen" <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cannot telnet to port 5038 on asterisk


> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:56:39PM +0100, Steve Daniels wrote:
>> Try a a good old
>> netstat -a | grep 5038
>
> netstat -lntup | grep 5038
>
> -l is generally preferable than -a: only gives listening ports. -t: tcp
> sockets only. -p: also pid and name of the process that has the socket.

-a show's all sockets regardless of state
though I admit including -p would check that it was actually * listening on 
that port,
and make sure that no other process is preventing * from binding to that 
port.

>
>> That will tell you if * is listening and what it's listening on.
>> Then if it show's * is listening, it must be a permit =, or a firewall
>> issue.
>
> Though most firewalls allow everything on the interface lo. My guess is
> that either asterisk is not running or it has not been *restarted* since
> the configuration change. Reloading is not enough to change the
> IP address(es) Asterisk listens on or make it start listen at all
> (right?)
>
Make sure you restart the process, it sounds as if you've probably restarted 
it a fair few times though..

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