To find out what application is listening on a given port on Linux, issue following command:
$ netstat -pntl | grep $PORT
with Mac OS X, the netstat command behaves differently, and you need to provide the protocol via -p option.
$ netstat -p tcp | grep $PORT
Besides, there is another command you can use, lsof.
$ lsof -n -i :$PORT_LIST | grep LISTEN
where $PORT_LIST is a list of ports in comma-separated format. For example,
$ lsof -n -i :80,8000,443 | grep LISTEN
On Windows, you can use netstat, too, but a little difference:
C:\>netstat -a -b -o
with the option -o will provide the process ID that listens to the ports. Or simpler, just use TCPView from Sysinternals package.
Have fun 🙂
