2 entries are registered on port 8008. It is a registered port (1024–49151) — IANA records an assignee, but nothing stops other software from listening here, which is why the number carries more than one entry.
services registered on this number
1 transport in use
entries encrypted on the wire
0 of 2 iana-registered
| port | service | proto | category | risk | views |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| :8008 | IBM HTTP Server Admin | TCP | Web Services | caution | 58.3k |
| :8008 | HTTP Alternate Port | TCP | Web Services | caution | 49.6k |
IBM HTTP Server (IHS) uses port 8008 as a default port for administrative access. This port facilitates management, monitoring, and configuration of the server remotely through a web-based interface or command-line tools. Admins leverage this port to control and maintain Apache-based HTTP servers optimized by IBM, which are often part of larger enterprise web infrastructure deployments.
port 8008 as IBM HTTP Server Admin →Port 8008 serves as an alternate port for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), commonly used when the default port 80 is unavailable or when administrators wish to separate different web applications on the same server. While not an officially designated HTTP port, it has become widely recognized for such alternative use cases.
port 8008 as HTTP Alternate Port →The registry says what 8008 is registered to. What is listening on it right now is decided by the host, and only the host can be asked. Each of these prints the process behind the socket.
ss -ltnp | grep ':8008\b'lsof -nP -iTCP:8008 -sTCP:LISTENnetstat -ano | findstr :8008On Linux and Windows the process name comes back with the socket; on macOS lsof needs sudo to name a process that isn't yours. Match what it prints against the 2 entries above.
A port number is not a service. Anything may listen on 8008 — what you actually met is decided by the host, not the registry. If a service is missing here, it belongs in the registry.
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