On 2016-12-15, mark lewis  wrote:   
   >   
   > as someone else (shawn?) mentioned, check your /etc/services file... this is    
   > the only time that i'm aware of changing the port in /etc/services would   
   cause    
   > the port being listened to to change... i've always just edit the services   
   file    
   > to add missing ports...   
   >   
   Yeah I did it...thanks for your contribution Mark.   
      
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