I am using Fedora 14, and I want to configure Netcat so it accepts connections from other computers on my LAN. I can only connect to it from localhost. Like if I do
this:

netcat -l -p 10080 # I know its a weird port to use, but other ports are in use

And then I Firefox over to it from localhost, I can see the data Firefox sends to the Netcat listener. However, if I try to connect to it from another computer on the LAN, the connection times out. I even made sure the firewall isnt blocking the connections. I went to system > administartion > firewall and configured it to allow port 10080.

So what am I doing wrong?

If you have a default install I would first check to see if the firewall is turned on.


Try running (as root)

If you get something similar to below then the firewall is off however if you get lists of rules then that may be why you can't connect to your listening netcat.

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Thank you, it worked. *closes thread*