[Sunhelp] Can't get a program to bind on an external IP address...

[Rob Staab]

Can I check that with truss somehow? Will it show the value returned to a
system call?
If not what available tools will?

- Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Nicholas Dronen
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 4:45 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Can't get a program to bind on an external IP
> address...
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 04:03:44PM -0400, Rob Staab wrote:
> >
> > I'm currently trying to get a simple web proxy to build on
> Solaris 8, Ultra
> > 5 hardware platofrm. I've specified the IP address of the
> single ethernet
> > card on the machine and the port 8000. This should allow ay
> user to connect
> > on this port and be forwarded out to the web site of their
> choice. However
> > when the daemon runs as any user except root, the proxy
> application is only
> > accessable from the local proxy machine. All other hosts on the network
> > cannot even connect to port 8000.
> >
> > When the daemon runs as root, other hosts on the network can connect as
> > expected. Is there something I'm missing. I was under the
> impression that
> > ports above 1024 could be bound to by ordinary users and that
> binding to a
> > port would allow outside hosts to connect at that IP Address/port
> > combination.
>
> Are you checking the return value of bind(3n)?
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick Dronen
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