PORT NUMBER SERVICE

7 Echo

20, 21 FTP

22 SSH/SCP

23 Telnet

25 SMTP

53 DNS

67, 68 DHCP/BOOTP

69 TFTP

80 HTTP

88 Kerberos

110 POP3

123 NTP

137 NetBIOS

143 IMAP

161 SNMP

194 IRC

389 LDAP

443 HTTPS

445 Microsoft DS SMB

464 Kerberos password settings

547 DHCPv6

596 SMSD

636 LDAP over SSL

Well-known/System Ports: 0 – 1023

PORT TRANSPORT
SERVICE NAME DESCRIPTION
NUMBER PROTOCOL

7 Echo TCP, UDP Echo service

19 CHARGEN TCP, UDP Character Generator Protocol, has seve

PORT TRANSPORT
SERVICE NAME DESCRIPTION
NUMBER PROTOCOL

vulnerabilities and thus is rarely used n

20 FTP-data TCP, SCTP File Transfer Protocol data transfer

21 FTP TCP, UDP, SCTP File Transfer Protocol command contr

Secure Shell, secure logins, file transfe

22 SSH/SCP/SFTP TCP, UDP, SCTP
sftp), and port forwarding

Telnet protocol, for unencrypted text

23 Telnet TCP
communications

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, used fo

25 SMTP TCP
routing between mail servers

Microsoft Windows Internet Name Se

42 WINS Replication TCP, UDP
vulnerable to attacks on a local networ

43 WHOIS TCP, UDP Whois service, provides domain-level

UDP; can also use TCP Terminal Access Controller Access-Co

49 TACACS but not necessarily on provides remote authentication and rel
port 49 for network access

53 DNS TCP, UDP Domain Name System name resolver

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

67 DHCP/BOOTP UDP
predecessor Bootstrap Protocol Server

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

68 DHCP/BOOTP UDP
predecessor Bootstrap Protocol Server

69 TFTP UDP Trivial File Transfer Protocol

PORT TRANSPORT
SERVICE NAME DESCRIPTION
NUMBER PROTOCOL

Gopher is a communication protocol fo

70 Gopher TCP distributing, searching, and retrieving
Internet Protocol (IP) networks

Name/Finger protocol and Finger user

79 Finger TCP protocol, for retrieving and manipulati
information

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) u

80 HTTP TCP, UDP, SCTP versions 1.x and 2. HTTP/3 uses QUIC
protocol on top of UDP

88 Kerberos TCP, UDP Network authentication system

Microsoft Exchange Microsoft Exchange ISO Transport Se

102 TCP
ISO-TSAP Point (TSAP) Class 0 protocol

110 POP3 TCP Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3

Identification Protocol, for identifying

113 Ident TCP
particular TCP connection

119 NNTP (Usenet) TCP Network News Transfer Protocol

123 NTP UDP Network Time Protocol

Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RP

Microsoft RPC
135 TCP, UDP Mapper (EPMAP) service, for remote
EPMAP
and management

NetBIOS Name Service, used for nam

137 NetBIOS-ns TCP, UDP
and resolution
PORT TRANSPORT
SERVICE NAME DESCRIPTION
NUMBER PROTOCOL

NetBIOS Datagram Service, used for p

138 NetBIOS-dgm TCP, UDP
access to shared resources

139 NetBIOS-ssn TCP, UDP NetBIOS Session Service

Internet Message Access Protocol (IM

143 IMAP TCP, UDP
management of electronic mail messag

SNMP-agents Simple network management protocol

161 UDP
(unencrypted) communicate on this port

SNMP-trap Simple network management protocol

162 UDP
(unencrypted) asynchronous traps

177 XDMCP UDP X Display Manager Control Protocol

179 BGP TCP Border Gateway Protocol

194 IRC UDP Internet Relay Chat

AppleTalk Routing Maintenance. Troj

201 AppleTalk TCP, UDP
computer viruses have used UDP port

264 BGMP TCP, UDP Border Gateway Multicast Protocol

318 TSP TCP, UDP Time Stamp Protocol

381 HP Openview TCP, UDP HP performance data collector

383 HP Openview TCP, UDP HP data alarm manager

389 LDAP TCP, UDP Lightweight directory access protocol

411 (Multiple uses) TCP, UDP Direct Connect Hub, Remote MT Prot
PORT TRANSPORT
SERVICE NAME DESCRIPTION
NUMBER PROTOCOL

Direct Connect Client-to-Client, Trap

412 (Multiple uses) TCP, UDP
Port

427 SLP TCP Service Location Protocol

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (H

HTTPS (HTTP over
443 TCP, UDP, SCTP TCP in versions 1.x and 2. HTTP/3 us
SSL)
transport protocol on top of UDP.

Microsoft Directory Services: TCP for

445 Microsoft DS SMB TCP, UDP Directory, Windows shares; UDP for S
Message Block (SMB) file-sharing

464 Kerberos TCP, UDP For password settings on Kerberos

Authenticated SMTP over TLS/SSL (S

SMTP over
465 TCP Rendezvous Directory for Cisco’s Sou
TLS/SSL, SSM
Multicast protocol (SSM)

497 Dantz Retrospect TCP, UDP A software suite for backing up operat

Internet Protocol Security / Internet Se

IPSec / ISAKMP /
500 UDP Association and Key Management Pro
IKE
Internet Key Exchange

512 rexec TCP Remote Process Execution

The Unix program rlogin allows use

513 rlogin TCP
another host using a network.

514 syslog UDP Syslog Protocol, for collecting and org

the log files sent from the various devi
PORT TRANSPORT
SERVICE NAME DESCRIPTION
NUMBER PROTOCOL

network

Line Printer Daemon protocol, or Line

515 LPD/LPR TCP
Remote protocol

Routing Information Protocol, used to

520 RIP UDP optimal path between source and desti
networks

Routing Information Protocol next gen

521 RIPng (IPv6) UDP
IPv6 compatible version of RIP

540 UUCP TCP Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol

548 AFP TCP Apple Filing Protocol

554 RTSP TCP, UDP Real Time Streaming Protocol

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

546 DHCPv6 TCP, UDP DHCPv6 Clients listen for DHCPv6 m
UDP port 546.

DHCPv6 Servers and DHCPv6 Relay

547 DHCPv6 TCP, UDP
for DHCPv6 messages on UDP port 54

560 rmonitor UDP Remote Monitor

NNTP over Network News Transfer Protocol with

563 TCP, UDP
TLS/SSL and verification

587 SMTP TCP For email message submission via SM

591 FileMaker TCP FileMaker Web Companion, the web p

PORT TRANSPORT
SERVICE NAME DESCRIPTION
NUMBER PROTOCOL

technology available in FileMaker vers

593 Microsoft DCOM TCP, UDP Distributed Component Object Model

596 SMSD TCP, UDP SysMan Station daemon

631 IPP TCP Internet Printing Protocol

LDAP over Lightweight Directory Access Protoco

636 TCP, UDP
TLS/SSL TLS/SSL

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol,

639 MSDP (PIM) TCP
of the Protocol Independent Multicast

Label Distribution Protocol, applies to

646 LDP (MPLS) TCP, UDP
capable of Multiprotocol Label Switch

691 Microsoft Exchange TCP Microsoft Exchange Routing

860 iSCSI TCP Internet Small Computer Systems Inte

The rsync file synchronization protoc

873 rsync TCP transfers and synchronizes files betwee
networked computers.

902 VMware Server TCP, UDP VMware ESXi, a hypervisor

989 FTPS TCP File Transfer Protocol (data) over TLS

990 FTPS TCP File Transfer Protocol (control) over T

IMAP over SSL

993 TCP Internet Message Access Protocol ove
(IMAPS)
PORT TRANSPORT
SERVICE NAME DESCRIPTION
NUMBER PROTOCOL

POP3 over SSL

995 TCP, UDP Post Office Protocol 3 over TLS/SSL
(POP3S)