On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:56:43 +0000, Eli the Bearded wrote:

> 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?
>
In case you haven't heard about it, most Linux distros, including
Raspbian, have a copy of the file /etc/service

This is a plaintext ASCII file that lists all the well-defined network
services and the ports they are expected to use.


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