FTP
File Transfer Protocol — data channel.
Look up common services for any TCP/UDP port number
FTP
File Transfer Protocol — data channel.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol — command channel.
OpenSSH
Secure Shell — encrypted remote login + SFTP.
Telnet
Unencrypted remote shell — avoid on the public net.
Mail relay
Simple Mail Transfer — server-to-server relay.
BIND / systemd-resolved
Domain Name System — name resolution.
DHCP
Bootstrap / DHCP — address assignment.
DHCP
DHCP client — receives leases.
TFTP
Trivial FTP — unauthenticated firmware transfers.
Web server
HyperText Transfer Protocol — plaintext web.
Mail client
Post Office Protocol — download-and-delete mail.
ntpd / chrony
Network Time Protocol — clock synchronization.
Mail client
Internet Message Access — server-side mailbox.
SNMP
Simple Network Management — device monitoring.
IRC
Internet Relay Chat — classic chat protocol.
OpenLDAP
Lightweight Directory Access — directory lookups.
Web server
HTTP over TLS — the encrypted public web.
Samba
Windows file + printer sharing over IP.
Mail submission
SMTP over TLS (implicit).
rsyslog
Classic syslog log collection.
Mail client
Authenticated mail submission (STARTTLS).
CUPS
Internet Printing Protocol.
OpenLDAP
LDAP over TLS.
DoT resolver
Encrypted DNS via TLS.
Mail client
IMAP over TLS.
Mail client
POP3 over TLS.
Proxy
SOCKS proxy protocol.
OpenVPN
OpenVPN server default.
SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server default port.
Oracle
Oracle Database default listener.
Docker
Docker remote daemon — unencrypted.
Docker
Docker remote daemon — TLS.
Next.js / Rails/Create-React-App
Common local dev server port.
MySQL
MySQL / MariaDB default port.
Windows RDP
Remote Desktop Protocol.
Phoenix / Vite HMR
Common Elixir / Vite dev port.
Flask / AirPlay
Python dev servers + macOS AirPlay receiver.
Vite dev
Vite default dev server.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL default port.
RabbitMQ
AMQP message broker.
VNC
Virtual Network Computing display share.
Redis
Redis / Valkey default.
Cassandra
Cassandra inter-node.
Dev server
Python `http.server`, Django dev, etc.
Tomcat / proxies
Common alternative HTTP port.
TLS alt
Alternative HTTPS port.
Jupyter Notebook
Jupyter notebook server.
PHP-FPM / SonarQube
PHP FastCGI + SonarQube.
Apache Kafka
Kafka broker.
Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
ES/OpenSearch HTTP API.
memcached
Memory key-value cache.
MongoDB
MongoDB default port.