12 ports in use?

annie123

Hi whilst I was looking at the site today our IT depatment was in the office looking at someone elses computer.
He then shouted out who is looking at mse? its using 12 ports!!
A problem site he said. I have been banned from useing it at work now:eek:

What he said doesnt mean anything to me, does it to you?

Annie

Chippy_Minton

The ports are the part of the connections which your web browser makes to MSE. I think if the web site contains lots of images, multiple ports are used.

You can see this for yourself by clicking Start - Run - type cmd and click OK. In the Command Prompt window that's just opened type:

netstat

and press Return.

Refresh the MSE web page and enter the command again and you'll see something like:

TCP myComputer:1846 [url]https://www.moneysavingexpert.com:http[/url] ESTABLISHED
TCP myComputer:1847 [url]https://www.moneysavingexpert.com:http[/url] ESTABLISHED
TCP myComputer:1848 [url]https://www.moneysavingexpert.com:http[/url] ESTABLISHED
TCP myComputer:1849 [url]https://www.moneysavingexpert.com:http[/url] ESTABLISHED
TCP myComputer:1850 [url]https://www.moneysavingexpert.com:http[/url] ESTABLISHED
TCP myComputer:1851 [url]https://www.moneysavingexpert.com:http[/url] ESTABLISHED

The number is the port number on which each of the browser's http connections are made.

pjb007

I just tried that (just out of interest) on XP Pro I ran the command and it ran but instantly closed.

I'm on XP Pro, I'm also on a Uni halls connection but I can't see that causing a problem.

Chippy_Minton

pjb007 wrote:

I just tried that (just out of interest) on XP Pro I ran the command and it ran but instantly closed.

Follow the simple steps: click Start - Run - type cmd in the Open box and click OK. Then type netstat in the black command prompt window.

sra

TCPView will give you a nice graphical display

No instal necessary - just download (55 KB) and run from your desktop if you want.

annie123

Thanks for info
Is this normal then?
Can I tell IT man to P*** O** and let me use MSE, (during lunch only of course!!!)

Chippy_Minton

Yes, it's normal.

illmonkey

annie123 wrote:

Thanks for info
Is this normal then?
Can I tell IT man to P*** O** and let me use MSE, (during lunch only of course!!!)

depends on your IT policy. Most will let you use the internet during lunch, still using there filter.

If the site is harmless and you cant access it in lunch, ask the IT manager to remove it from the ban list.

jamesd

I'm also seeing connections left in CLOSE_WAIT. They leave that state and finish the closing sequence as soon as I load another page from here. This suggests a misconfiguration in the servers at MSE. On a box where I'm not logged in they go quickly from ESTABLISHED through CLOSE_WAIT to closed so that may provide a clue.

Lots of connections ESTABLISHED is normal but they should rapidly move from there to gone once the data transfer is complete. For some reason this is not happening here.