CentOS - May 2012 - Centos 6 - x11vnc auto probing to port 5903

Hi all,

I was at one time able to get x11vnc to start on 5900 but for some reason its
listening on port 5903.

Here is what the logs say;

-- snippet
X display :0.0

-- snippet
The VNC desktop is:      hostname:3

Why is the VNC desktop going to 3?

I was working on 5900 previous to a reboot, unsure what changed, but something
obviously has.

- aurf

On 06/05/2012 16:20, aurfalien wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was at one time able to get x11vnc to start on 5900 but for some reason
its listening on port 5903.
>
> Here is what the logs say;
>
> -- snippet
> X display :0.0
>
> -- snippet
> The VNC desktop is:      hostname:3
>
> Why is the VNC desktop going to 3?
>
> I was working on 5900 previous to a reboot, unsure what changed, but
something obviously has.
>
>
It is an upper port > 1023, it is entirely possible that 5900, 5901, 
5902 were used by outgoing connections at the time service 
establishment, and VNC just chose the next available port.
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