| Port No | 8888 |
| Service Name | napster |
| RFC Doc | 0 |
| Protocol | TCP |
| Description | Napster is a P2P software client, clients also act as the servers providing files to other users. Historically the port was assigned to NewsEDGE server TCP (TCP 1) | external shell (test) NewsEDGE server UDP (UDP 1) |
| Reference Link | Port Number:8888 Service Name:napster Port:TCP |
| Attack | This traffic does not likely indicate an attack, often P2P traffic will be seen going to hosts that do not run P2P software if a site using dynamic IP addresses (such as an ISP or DHCP client pool) as a previous client running the P2P application had that address and traffic for it is still coming in. Action: Firewall this port unless you specifically want to allow P2P services to run |
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