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| Who is this for? | Technical people - Programmers aka developers, and useful for network administrators (firewall config). |
| What is This all about | Quite simply - it lists all port numbers, associated services and an increasing amount of programs. |
| Why is this | Although this same list can be seen elsewhere (see credits) - navigation here is slightly different. It also has more entries then the assigned 'IANA' list (contains info for programs/services that have not been 'approved'). The data is also searchable and each port is also assigned a 'recommendation' value for programmers (ie. help to determine which port can/cannot be used) |
| CREDITS | Thanks to : http://www.iana.org - main content : http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers http://www.neohapsis.com - for the original main listing contents http://www.Simovits.com - for the original trojan entries All those people continuously adding information about port use. |
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| Is it Up To Date / correct? | Unlikely! - Check other sources if the information here is no good. For starters go HERE and search the page. This is only here for easy reference! |
| Re "Programmers Perspective" | Okay, this will likely be considered as a little incorrect by some. It is obvious that some ports are 'assigned' as defined by IANA and thus should not be used by programmers - yet this is not reflected here. One reason is that there is no reason why a developer cannot use a port designated as assigned by IANA. More reasons exist but this is enough flame bait for now ;) (will 'BitTorrent' ever have its own assignment???) |
| Why list all the trojan entries? | 'As a developer' i probably shouldn't pick a port with many/prolific trojans associated with it (it could well be blocked at a firewall.) |
| Why list all the trojan entries? 2 | For network traffic watchers... if there is suddenly a whole lot more traffic on a port then this list can help determine the (program) source of the packets (eg. virus/messenger) |
| Note: | For simplicity reasons - 'programmers perspective' ignores TCP/UPD traffic types. (ie. it might be considered safe to send UDP traffic BUT NOT TCP traffic on a port) |
| User Comments: | Search functionality will NOT search user comments until they have been moderated (last update time can be found at the bottom of a port list page). |
| Feedback/Comments: | Use this form (click) |
| Further information: | Background to ports (read both and you should start to understand that ports are like little doors - opening out on to the internet): What is a port scan? and Batten Down Those Ports.
Deeper information (and more links): http://www.akerman.ca/port-table.html Port Requirements for the Microsoft Windows Server System. For game server information try: www.practicallynetworked.com |