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TCP Client Self-Connect.

Stjepan Groš (5 August 2013)
🔗 https://sgros.blogspot.com/2013/08/tcp-client-self-connect.html
#networking #bcs2110 #bcs

A TCP edge-case: a client can connect to itself!

Note that you didn’t start any server and there is no process listening on port 50000 on localhost, but yet, it connected! […] What happened? In short, client connected to itself. :)