Question regarding broadcast

Kindly suggest the best possible way to send messages to ALL the
servers, that are listening on their respective port numbers, within a
host on a Linux system. Basically I am looking for something like a
broadcast capability, but instead of forwarding data to all the
interfaces, I would like to forward data to all the listening ports.
Thanks,
Nimmi



Nimmi Srivastav

"Nimmi Srivastav" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed) roups.com>...
> Kindly suggest the best possible way to send messages to ALL the
> servers, that are listening on their respective port numbers, within a
> host on a Linux system. Basically I am looking for something like a
> broadcast capability, but instead of forwarding data to all the
> interfaces, I would like to forward data to all the listening ports.
> Thanks,
> Nimmi

You wish to send data to all listening servers, what type of data.
You can try with signals, but data ... not sure. Please rephrase your
question.

Nimmi Srivastav wrote:
> Kindly suggest the best possible way to send messages to ALL the
> servers, that are listening on their respective port numbers, within
a
> host on a Linux system. Basically I am looking for something like a
> broadcast capability, but instead of forwarding data to all the
> interfaces, I would like to forward data to all the listening ports.
> Thanks,
> Nimmi

Hi Nimmi, is it that you wish to send some event notification to all
the processes that are listening on some port assigned to them, in that
case you can write a simple script to find out the id's of those
processes by scanning the xinetd or init.d and send them the signal.
But sending the data to them, is it of any use to do that, not very
sure.

If possible do rephrase your question with some more details.