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from: ELI THE BEARDED
date: 2019-11-21 21:56:00
subject: Re: VNC refused connectio

In comp.sys.raspberry-pi, Andy Burns   wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Andy Burns wrote:
>>> that said, port 8080 is an unusual number to be running something that
>>> expects to speak vnc/rfb, sounds more like a non-standard http port,
>>> and you should be pointing a web browser on the pi to localhost:8080
>> 8080 is default proxy web server port
> Only unofficially, it tends to also get used by anything else wanting to
> using http where port 80 is already in use.

I use 8000 (http) or 8443 (https) myself. Andy's point I think is that
vnc is usually on port 5900 (or 5900 + N for the (N-1)th instance), so
are you (OP) really sure it is supposed to be vnc traffic?

Elijah
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