# Listening to Unix Domain Sockets on a Windows machine

**URL:** <https://forum.cedalo.com/t/listening-to-unix-domain-sockets-on-a-windows-machine/833>\
**Category:** Errors\
**Created:** [July 19, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.cedalo.com/t/listening-to-unix-domain-sockets-on-a-windows-machine/833 "2023-07-19T21:55:14Z")\
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I am trying to run the Mosquitto broker (mosquitto version 2.0.15) on a Windows host listening to a Unix Domain Socket.

I tried from the command line:

> ‘C:\Program Files\mosquitto\mosquitto.exe’ -v -p /tmp/mosquitto.sock

and with a config file that contains:

> listener 0 /tmp/mosquitto.sock

In both cases I get the error messages:

1689803629: Error: Invalid port specified (0).

or

1689803643: Error: Invalid port value (0).

Can someone please help me in get that working? Do I need to recompile the broker with Domain Socket support?