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command line - How to close an

open port in Ubuntu?
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I need a command to list all open ports in my PC, and another

command to close a port.

Any suggestions?

I need to close some applications' port.

netstat can be used to see the ports stat.

sudo netstat -lnp

To list all listening ports numbers with the process responsible

on each one. Terminate or kill the process to close port. (kill,
pkill ...)

Without process termination, It is not possible! . See Manually

closing a port from commandline. Other way you may look for a
firewall solution (as isolating that port from network)

You can use iptables to block the port on the network level
without having to close the application. The port would still
appear open, but will be unreachable.

alternatively, this is dependent on the application, some permit

to disable some port ( think dovecot and the pop3 or imap port
), and some cannot. Some application can also be configured to
listen only on localhost or a specific address.

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You can use netstat -nalp and lsof -i:port tools to

identify process/binaries behind open port.

If you want to close port you have to kill process or stop relative
service.If you want run services only for your local box you can
configure respective service to listen on localhost/127.0.0.1 not
on all available (0.0.0.0) ips.

answered Jan 25 '14 at 17:56

for closing listen port in ubuntu you can use below command

sudo kill $(sudo lsof -t -i:3000)

in place of 3000 you can specify your port number

lsof command will give information about file opened by

process

-t : This flag specifies that lsof should produce terse output with
process identifiers only and no header - e.g., so that the output
may be piped to kill(1). This option selects the -w option.

-i : This flag selects the listing of files any of whose Internet

address matches the address specified in i. If no address is
specified, this option selects the listing of all Internet and x.25
(HP-UX) network files.

answered Feb 9 '17 at 9:28

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