# WHATPORT(2008)

## NAME

port 2008 — conf — Registered as conf with no description; no current standard service.

Protocol: TCP  
IANA registry

## DESCRIPTION

IANA registers 2008/tcp as conf and 2008/udp as terminaldb, two undocumented early registrations. No maintained protocol uses either name. As with its neighbours, an open 2008 in a network-gear context is usually reverse telnet to line 8 on a Cisco terminal server, and elsewhere it is an application that simply picked the port.

## EXPOSURE

**Expose with care.** Unidentified listener: fingerprint it before deciding whether it may be reachable.

## CHECK

```sh
nc -vz TARGET 2008
```

## SEE ALSO

- iana — [IANA port registry — 2008 (conf)](https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=2008) (iana.org)

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