Can two applications listen to the same port?

Question

Can two applications on the same machine bind to the same port and IP address? Taking it a step further, can one app listen to requests coming from a certain IP and the othe

Answer 1

If by applications you mean multiple processes then yes but generally NO. For example Apache server runs multiple processes on same port (generally 80).It's done by designating one of the process to actually bind to the port and then use that process to do handovers to various processes which are accepting connections.