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Subject: stuck connections or not
From: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:29:51 -0800
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Hello;
I'm noticing the loopback device
is always established i.g. 
watch netstat -ntu

Every 2.0s: netstat -ntu
Mon Nov 17 14:28:11 2008

Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address
State
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8765          127.0.0.1:57429
ESTABLISHED

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:57429         127.0.0.1:8765
ESTABLISHED

Not sure if this is normal or not.

regards;


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Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>