> Hi, > though this is not directly related to postgres, but i was wondering why are > most of the ports seen closed > when one does nmap scan of these ports. Whats reason can we attribute to the > fact that most of the ports in an OS are > in closed state.
A port is 'closed', if no process is listen on this port. You can use 'netstat -tulpen' or similar commands to list open ports and processes which are in LISTEN state.
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