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In /etc/services on a few machines I've checked, port 9898 is associated with a service called MonkeyCom:

monkeycom   9898/udp     # MonkeyCom
monkeycom   9898/tcp     # MonkeyCom

The first reference I found in a google search for MonkeyCom says it's part of the Sasser virus. That seems like a misinterpretation to me -- it's more likely that Sasser is using 9898 but that there's some older service called MonkeyCom which originally got the assignment.

Who can tell me what MonkeyCom is?

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MonkeyCom is (or was - as far as I can determine it is now defunct) a videophone/file transfer program.
As far as I can determine nothing legitimate is currently using port 9898 - it's pretty much just Sasser and a few other bits of nasty.

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Do you have a source for that defunct videophone program or the reference to it? – Doug Harris Oct 8 '10 at 19:54
serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_3521746_2/… is the most authoritative one I found. The referenced site is long gone however & makes no mention of the MonkeyCom product. – voretaq7♦ Oct 8 '10 at 21:03
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pgpool might be using that port.

You can do a "lsof | grep 9898" and check.

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Or lsof -i :9898 – mugen kenichi Oct 19 '11 at 12:51
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The definitive source for Port Assignments is IANA http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers from which you can find a name and email address of someone who might know the answer to your question. More probably the email address is no longer valid :-(

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Tripwire Enterprise uses 9898 as it's default port for communication between server and agent.

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