{
  "port": 6896,
  "protocol": "tcp",
  "service": "Unassigned",
  "oneLiner": "Not registered with IANA and not tied to any well-known service — whatever answers here is site-specific.",
  "whatItIs": "6896 has no entry in the IANA service name and port number registry, in either transport. Nmap's services file lists it as \"unknown\" with an open-frequency of 0.000152, which puts it among the ports it almost never sees open in internet-wide scans. There is no established software, protocol, or malware family that claims it. If it is listening on your host, the answer comes from the process table, not from a port list.",
  "exposure": {
    "verdict": "careful",
    "note": "An unregistered port tells you nothing about its risk; identify the owning process with lsof or ss before deciding whether it should be reachable."
  },
  "checkCommand": "sudo lsof -nP -iTCP:6896 -sTCP:LISTEN",
  "links": [
    {
      "title": "IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry — 6896",
      "url": "https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=6896",
      "kind": "iana"
    }
  ]
}
