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Port opening problem with CSF

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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator
    Hey there! Can you let me know how you are testing the port? It does show up in the list you provided, so it definitely seems open. If you're expecting to get a reply like port 25 or port 80 normally would provide, you would need to have a service running on that port on the server side for that to happen. As an example, the passive FTP port range is usually a few thousand ports, but you can't connect to them with telnet as they aren't all being actively used, but they care open in the firewall.
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  • eventtex
    Hi, Thank you for the answer. To test if the port was open I used this online tool: Open Port Check Tool - Test Port Forwarding on Your Router It tells me that my port 8080 is closed. How can I see if a service is using this port? Thanks for your help.
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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator
    If you run this command on the server that will tell you if anything is listening on that port: netstat -lpn | grep 8080
    Can you try that and see if that shows anything?
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  • eventtex
    When I run the netstat command on port 8080 no service seems to be using this port. I tried this same command for port 80 and I can see which services are using it.
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  • cPRex Jurassic Moderator
    That sounds like the firewall is working as intended then. You'll just need to get something running on that service and then it will respond how you expect.
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