How To Find Out Which Proccess is Listening On A Port for Windows? – POFTUT

How To Find Out Which Proccess is Listening On A Port for Windows?

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System or Network administrators looks ports and applications to solve problems. Getting port and application info in Linux can be done lsof command. But in Windows? netstat is a very popular and useful tool used to get network and port-related information.

List Listening Port with netstat Command

We will use <a href="https://www.poftut.com/how-to-check-and-list-listening-ports-with-netstat-in-linux/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">netstat</a> command like below in order to list which process, application or service listening which port on Windows.

  • -a Display all connections and listening ports
  • -b Display port and connection related executable/application
  • -n Display port numbers as a number, not port name
  • -o Display process/executable owner
C:\> netstat -a -b

What is that? it says we need Administrator privileges. Open command prompt with Administrator privileges

List Listening Port with netstat Command
List Listening Port with netstat Command

From the output following information is provided

  • The protocol is the transport layer protocol like TCP or UDP
  • Local Address is the current local system IP address. `0.0.0.0` means every IP address current system have. Because the current system may have multiple interfaces and IP addresses.
  • Foreign Address is the remote system address or Hostname which is connected or waiting
  • State specifies the given port status like LISTENIN, CLOSED, CONNECTED etc.

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How To Find Out Which Proccess is Listening On A Port for Windows Infographic

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