How do I free up a TCP/IP port?

netstat -tulnap shows me what ports are in use. How do I free up a port in Linux? As the others have said, you’ll have to kill all processes that are listening on that port. The easiest way to do that would be to use the fuser(1) command. For example, to...

I can’t SSH to instance started in new subnet/zone

I have an AMI and security group that I’ve been starting instances from, using our VPC and a subnet we’ve had defined, for a long time. Once such instances start, I’m able to SSH to them.So far so good.Lately we started getting error messages about...