Thread: blocking a network connection

Hello BraveProgrammer and welcome to the Java Programming Forums.

Do you know which ports you wish to block or do you want to block every port?

Read up on Java Networking - Networking Basics (The Java™ Tutorials > Custom Networking > Overview of Networking)

I think you will need to write something that listens on a certain port and then denies connection.

Originally Posted by BraveProgrammer

hey, thanks, glad to be here

actually for this moment i would like to be able to block the entire connection so ill rather block all the ports instead of listening to each and every port..

ill defenatly read on Java Networking but i persume it will explain about creating and blocking connections specified by certain ports, do u know a way to generalize it and block it all?

Hmm.. I'm not too sure how you would go about blocking every port. When I have done something similar in the past, the application was listening on a certain port and rejected the connection that way.

If a port isn't open, no one will be able to connect to it anyway.

Hopefully someone else can shed some light on this...

I believe most operating systems prevent opening multiple connections using the same port (linux does, and I believe Windows and MacOS do too). You could try opening connections to every port to prevent any other connections to that port, but you will run into a few problems:

1. You have no way of knowing when another application wants to use that port. This is fine if you want to just block that port, but you can't release the port without either random guessing or making every application use some API through your program to request access to that port (this just won't happen)
2. This assumes your application has unhindered access to every single port 0-0xffff. This will never be the case. Address 0-1024 are almost always reserved by the OS, and either will disallow opening them or will require super-user/administrator rights. This also means that your application must connect to the port before any other application connects to it.
3. I don't think there is a way for you to forcibly terminate a connection if it already exists (at least not in pure Java)

If you want to stop all port communication, simply disable your network card.