Allowing a given port to only be access by a given application

Hi,

Is it possible to configure windows server 2000 or 2003 to only allow
a given port to be used by a given application, e.g. application named
fred can only use port 123 and no other application can ever use port
123.

The reason for this is that occasionaly the application must be taken
down and during this time other applications can grab the port so when
fred comes back up it cannot run on that port.

I am not a server expert and it is not my applications, but a client
was experiencing this situation and I thought I would ask around if
there was such a configuration that could be put in place.

Thanks,

Nate

In short, no, afraid not.

It is a little bit bad to run two applications that want to use the same
port on a system though.

--
Chris Dent
MVP Directory Services

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:5c492365-0eef-4e61-97ff-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to configure windows server 2000 or 2003 to only allow
> a given port to be used by a given application, e.g. application named
> fred can only use port 123 and no other application can ever use port
> 123.
>
> The reason for this is that occasionaly the application must be taken
> down and during this time other applications can grab the port so when
> fred comes back up it cannot run on that port.
>
> I am not a server expert and it is not my applications, but a client
> was experiencing this situation and I thought I would ask around if
> there was such a configuration that could be put in place.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nate

On Jun 16, 8:56*am, "Chris Dent [MVP]" <ch...@highorbit.co.uk> wrote:
> In short, no, afraid not.
>
> It is a little bit bad to run two applications that want to use the same
> port on a system though.
>
> --
> Chris Dent
> MVP Directory Services
>
> <nathanj...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:5c492365-0eef-4e61-97ff-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Is it possible to configure windows server 2000 or 2003 to only allow
> > a given port to be used by a given application, e.g. application named
> > fred can only use port 123 and no other application can ever use port
> > 123.
>
> > The reason for this is that occasionaly the application must be taken
> > down and during this time other applications can grab the port so when
> > fred comes back up it cannot run on that port.
>
> > I am not a server expert and it is not my applications, but a client
> > was experiencing this situation and I thought I would ask around if
> > there was such a configuration that could be put in place.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Nate- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

i agree with that, but it is not my system so I cannot do anything
about it except to recommend. To be more specific though, application
A is set up to use port 788. Everything works fine. What is
happening is that when this application is shtu down, other
applications automatically grab this open port randomly, e..g. not all
the time.