Is something listening on Port 8172?

Question

_{Friday, July 15, 2016 6:51 AM}

I had a problem with Web Deploy as I was getting ERROR_DESTINATION_NOT_REACHABLE, so I followed the answer to this post.

When I ran that netsat, everying was 0 (as in the answer). The problem I was encountering was because no network connection was available on the server, so I solved that part.

However, even if the server is now reachable from Visual Studio and Web Deploy, netstat still returns 0 (as in the answer).

So is the answer correct or not? Is something listening on that port but being listed when using netstat?

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_{Friday, July 15, 2016 7:40 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

The answer  indicates that if there is nothing listed after netstat -aon | findstr :8172, then nothing is listening on that port.

If you get this, then nothing is listening on that port.
C:\Users\terri_2.TD-LAPTOP>netstat -aon | findstr :8172

However if something listed, it means that the port is bound to something.

netstat -aon | findstr :8172
   TCP    0.0.0.0:8172           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4
   TCP    [::]:8172              [::]:0                 LISTENING       4

Please take a look at the following link, it will help you understand this better.

http://www.computerweekly.com/tip/How-to-use-a-netstat-command-in-Windows-to-watch-open-ports

Best Regards,

Jean