[SunHELP] Loopback traffic

[Will McDonald]

On 10/02/06, Brigance, Leslie V, WCS <lbrigance at att.com> wrote:
> Could someone (or several someones) help me in my ignorance here?
>
> What would cause so much traffic on the loopback port?
> This machine was rebooted on Jan 21.
> Machine name was obviously changed to hostname.

What's running on the box? Specifically what's listening for
connections on the loopback?

netstat -ln
or
netstat -a | grep LIST

If you're doing something like running a database and app server on
the same machine and the app's configured to talk to the DB via
localhost?

Will.