Re: Do you use ADB (or ScreenCopy) with Android & Windows?

On Fri, 9 May 2025 15:24:47 +0100, Andy Burns wrote :

   But is (adb port) 5037 in the excluded port range? On my system,
netstat diplays for example port 5354, which is somewhat close.

 
If (and I'll take Arlen at his word) Hyper-V decides to pick multiple
blocks of multiple addresses at each boot, then it could get clobbered
some of the time

Hi Andy,

I don't make this stuff up...
Apparently it's well known to everyone but us. :)

There's no official documentation, but it turns out still that it's real.

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5306
https://forums.docker.com/t/port-already-allocated/10888/6
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61885607/wsl2-port-already-in-use
https://dev.to/trademark18/an-attempt-was-made-to-access-a-socket-4nh9
https://www.reddit.com/r/HyperV/comments/1bowbai/port_reservation_causes_issues/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54010365/how-to-see-what-is-reserving-ephemeral-port-ranges-on-windows
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/651127/hyper-v-and-docker-desktop-preventing-port-bindin
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65272764/ports-are-not-available-listen-tcp-0-0-0-0-50070-bind-an-attempt-was-made-to

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