From: "Sam Lewis" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2377422 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:47:05 -0400 Received: from static-71-171-102-26.clppva.fios.verizon.net ([71.171.102.26] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1LnG8y-0008RD-KC for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:47:05 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.236]:36341) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LnG8m-0002TH-2H for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:46:49 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so1512439rvf.27 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.172.20 with SMTP id u20mr1181028rve.244.1238175653841; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:40:53 -0700 (PDT) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A01020A.49CD1109.0081,ss=1,fgs=0 Received: from ?192.168.1.100? (75-104-202-110.cust.wildblue.net [75.104.202.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k41sm4104272rvb.26.2009.03.27.10.40.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49CD1DA1.3080707@rollanet.org> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:40:33 -0600 Reply-To: saml@rollanet.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050425 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: OT: Netstat References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 1.0 (+) X-Spam-Report: 1.0 RCVD_BY_IP Received by mail server with no name Ah, the good ol readme. Glad somebody reads them :). It seems odd that programs talk to themselves locally by way of network sockets. But then again I'm not a programmer. I saw this behavior while working on my daughter's Vista laptop and thought it was odd as well but I guess its a normal thing. Andy thanks, Sam Andy Willis wrote: > Sam Lewis wrote: > >> I was looking at the netstat -s output for my laptop and found these >> ports talking to each other >> SOCK TYPE FOREIGN LOCAL >> FOREIGN STATE >> PORT PORT HOST >> ====== ===== ========== ========== ========== >> ======== >> This appears to be from Mozilla 1.7.7 >> 24 STREAM 54811 54812 127.0.0.1 ESTABLISH >> 25 STREAM 54812 54811 127.0.0.1 ESTABLISH >> >> This is from Firefox 2.x >> 1074 STREAM 55115 55116 127.0.0.1 ESTABLISH >> 1075 STREAM 55116 55115 127.0.0.1 ESTABLISH >> 1080 STREAM 55117 55118 127.0.0.1 ESTABLISH >> 1081 STREAM 55118 55117 127.0.0.1 ESTABLISH >> >> >> Why are these applications establishing streams between themselves? >> Thanks, >> Sam >> > I am not sure of the reason why... I just know that it is by design. > That is why the readme says to make sure that the loopback is enabled. > Andy > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to > > Send administrative queries to > > To subscribe (new addresses), E-mail to: > and reply to the confirmation > email. > Web archives are publicly available at: http://lists.2rosenthals.com > > This list is hosted by Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC > P.O. Box 281, Deer Park, NY 11729-0281. Non- > electronic communications related to content > contained in these messages should be directed > to the above address. (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003) > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > >