Knocking
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Knocking may refer to:
  • Knocking, Austria, a city, subdivision of Erlauf
    Erlauf
    Erlauf is a town in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria....

     in Austria
  • Knocking (documentary)
    Knocking (documentary)
    Knocking is a 2006 documentary film directed by Joel Engardio and Tom Shepard that focuses on the civil liberties fought for by Jehovah's Witnesses...

    , a documentary about Jehovah's Witnesses


Knocking may also call to mind:
  • Engine knocking
    Engine knocking
    Knocking in spark-ignition internal combustion engines occurs when combustion of the air/fuel mixture in the cylinder starts off correctly in response to ignition by the spark plug, but one or more pockets of air/fuel mixture explode outside the envelope of the normal combustion front.The...

    , or the sound accompanying automotive combustion malfunction
  • Port knocking
    Port knocking
    In computer networking, port knocking is a method of externally opening ports on a firewall by generating a connection attempt on a set of prespecified closed ports. Once a correct sequence of connection attempts is received, the firewall rules are dynamically modified to allow the host which sent...

    , a covert method of opening a port on a server
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