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I want to share my memcached instance in my network. What is the best way to do this to give the network access to it?
How I open the port for it? Is there some easy way?

Thanks for helping

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It's not advisable to allow networked access to memcached as it doesn't have any form of access control. /etc/memcached.conf on Ubuntu has this notice:

# Specify which IP address to listen on. The default is to listen on all IP addresses
# This parameter is one of the only security measures that memcached has, so make sure
# it's listening on a firewalled interface.
-l 127.0.0.1

If security is not a concern, then just comment out the -l 127.0.0.1 line and restart memcached. That should permit network access.

In Red Hat-based distros, the configuration is stored in /etc/sysconfig/memcached instead, in which case you just have to remove -l 127.0.0.1 from OPTIONS, if present.

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