Unix/Linux : Use netstat to find out IP addresses served by your website server
Problem :
You want to know if the real-time connection information served by Google Analytics is accurate and you need to compare with your web server's log. Perhaps, you just want to find out which IP addresses are being served by your website server. How to that in Unix or Linux ?
Solution :
Instead of relying on monitoring log files with tail -f
command. You can get real time information on the IP addresses currently being served by your web server.
Use the netstat -tn 2 > /dev/null
command to get the Active Internet connections information.
For example :
$>netstat -tn 2>/dev/null
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 162.243.5.230:443 113.102.185.8:55315 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 10.128.221.78:34371 10.128.148.90:3306 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9000 127.0.0.1:37494 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9000 127.0.0.1:37496 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 162.243.5.230:443 212.33.233.43:54942 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 162.243.5.230:443 212.33.233.43:54951 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 10.128.221.78:34373 10.128.148.90:3306 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 162.243.5.230:443 113.102.185.8:55314 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 162.243.5.230:443 212.33.233.43:54944 ESTABLISHED
However, we need to filter out the connections that are connected to port 80(http) or 443(SSL - https connection). This can be done easily by piping the result from netstat
to grep
command. Change grep to :80 if your web server is not serving via https/SSL.
$> netstat -tn 2>/dev/null | grep :443
tcp 0 0 162.243.5.230:443 113.102.185.8:55315 SYN_RECV
tcp 0 0 162.243.5.230:443 212.33.233.43:54942 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 162.243.5.230:443 212.33.233.43:54951 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 162.243.5.230:443 113.102.185.8:55314 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 162.243.5.230:443 212.33.233.43:54944 ESTABLISHED
Hope this system administration tip helps!
By Adam Ng
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