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Operating Systems AIX Command to release a port in AIX Post 302188151 by blowtorch on Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 09:13:30 PM
Old 04-22-2008
There would be a process that is listening on that port. Stopping that would be the first order of business.

It might also be that inetd is listening on that port and will fire up a process as specified in /etc/inetd.conf (does the name stay the same in AIX?).
In that case, find what process it is (usually from /etc/services - again confirm the name for AIX), then hash out the line referring to that process from /etc/inetd.conf. Send SIGHUP to inetd. That should do it.

If there isn't a process listening at all - or rather, there was a process, but it was killed or stopped uncleanly and didn't release the port, then just give it a few minutes. Connections to the port will drop once they timeout.
 

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REDIR(1)						      General Commands Manual							  REDIR(1)

NAME
redir - redirect tcp connections SYNOPSIS
redir [--laddr=incoming.ip.address] [--caddr=host] [--debug] [--syslog] [--name=str] [--timeout=n] [--bind_addr=my.other.ip.address] [--ftp=type] [--transproxy] [--connect=host:port] --lport=port --cport=port [--bufsize=n] [--max_bandwidth=n] [--random_wait=n] [--wait_in_out=n] redir --inetd [--caddr=host] [--debug] [--syslog] [--name=str] [--timeout=n] [--ftp=type] [--transproxy] [--connect=host:port] --cport=port [--bufsize=n] [--max_bandwidth=n] [--random_wait=n] [--wait_in_out=n] DESCRIPTION
Redir redirects tcp connections coming in to a local port to a specified address/port combination. It may be run either from inetd or as a standalone daemon. Depending on how redir was compiled, not all options may be available. OPTIONS
--lport Specifies port to listen for connections on (when not running from inetd) --laddr IP address to bind to when listening for connections (when not running from inetd) --cport Specifies port to connect to. --caddr Specifies remote host to connect to. (localhost if omitted) --inetd Run as a process started from inetd, with the connection passed as stdin and stdout on startup. --debug Write debug output to stderr or syslog. --name Specify program name to be used for TCP wrapper checks and syslog logging. --timeout Timeout and close the connection after n seconds of inactivity. --syslog Log information to syslog. --bind_addr Forces redir to pick a specific address/interface to bind to when it listens for incoming connections. --ftp When using redir for an FTP server, this will cause redir to also redirect ftp connections. Type should be specified as either "port", "pasv", or "both", to specify what type of FTP connection to handle. Note that --transproxy often makes one or the other (generally port) undesirable. --transproxy On a linux system with transparent proxying enabled, causes redir to make connections appear as if they had come from their true origin. (see /usr/share/doc/redir/transproxy.txt) --connect Redirects connections through an HTTP proxy which supports the CONNECT command. Specify the address and port of the proxy using --caddr and --cport. --connect requires the hostname and port which the HTTP proxy will be asked to connect to. --bufsize n Set the bufsize (defaut 4096) in bytes. Can be used combined with --max_bandwidth or --random_wait to simulate a slow con- nection. --max_bandwidth n Reduce the bandwidth to be no more than n bits/sec. The algorithme is basic, the goal is to simulate a slow connection, so there is no pic acceptance. --random_wait n Wait between 0 and 2 x n milliseconds before each "packet". A "packet" is a bloc of data read in one time by redir. A "packet" size is always less than the bufsize (see also --bufsize). --wait_in_out n Apply --max_bandwidth and --random_wait for input if n=1, output if n=2 and both if n=3. SEE ALSO
inetd(1) local REDIR(1)
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