SOCKS proxy binding 'error'

[corcoran]

guys.
i've noticed that my socks proxy has stopped working - in the properties page, the bindings are set as default, but in 'status' i've got errors binding to:

LAN 3 (internal)
MS Loopback 127.0.0.1

have deleted the service and created it again, after a couple of reboots - same results.

[genie]

Do you have other SOCKS proxies running on the same machine? Or some software that binds on the same port?

[corcoran]

no this is on my stable 6.04. it just started happening about a week ago.

[genie]

Just to eliminate this possibility- can you, please, stop the engine and run netstat -a
check if there is port 1080 TCP listed. Also, make sure that SOCKS server tries bounding on port 1080 and on the adapter which really exists in the system.

[genie]

sorry -
netstat -an
it saves you a bit of time :))

[corcoran]

will have to do this in about 7 hours time when people have gone home. ran a 'netstat -a -n' and how on earth do you go back up the page to see stuff? bloody microsoft.

[genie]

Or, you can simply do netstat -an >output.txt - file output.txt will have netstat results.

[corcoran]

super - with the engine running, it doesn't look like it's listening on 1080 - but currently there's no socks proxy. will reboot this later, add the service, reboot again, run -an and post it here.