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In socket programming why bind system call is only on server side not on client side.?

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In socket programming why bind system call is only on server side not on client side.?
posted Mar 17, 2015 by anonymous

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We need to see the purpose of this - when we using the socket at the server side we need to advertise to the rest of the world (read client) so that client can connect to it to specific IP and port, whereas there is no such requirement at the client side. That is the reason Server has to bind to a specific address and to listen a specific port.

answer Mar 17, 2015 by Salil Agrawal
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