Pport Numbers

The Network Administrator

Port numbers are from 0 to 65536. Ports 0 to 1024 are reserved for use by certain privileged services. For the HTTP service, port 80 is defined as a default and it does not have to be specified in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Port Numbers are typically found in the services file on your system. List below is an example.



# This file contains port numbers for well-known services as defined by
# RFC 1060 (Assigned Numbers).
#
# Format:
#
# <service name> <port number>/<protocol> [aliases...] [#<comment>]

echo 7/tcp
echo 7 /udp
discard 9/tcp sink null
discard 9/udp sink null
systat 11/tcp
systat 11/tcp users
daytime 13/tcp
daytime 13/udp
netstat 15/tcp
qotd 17/tcp quote
qotd 17/udp quote
chargen 19/tcp ttytst source
chargen 19/udp ttytst source
ftp-data 20/tcp
ftp 21/tcp
telnet 23/tcp
smtp 25/tcp mail
time 37/tcp timserver
time 37/udp timserver
rlp 39/udp resource # resource location
name 42/tcp nameserver
name 42/udp nameserver
whois 43/tcp nicname # usually to sri-nic
domain 53/tcp nameserver # name-domain server
domain 53/udp nameserver
nameserver 53/tcp domain # name-domain server
nameserver 53/udp domain
mtp 57/tcp # deprecated
bootp 67/udp # boot program server
tftp 69/udp
rje 77/tcp netrjs
finger 79/tcp
link 87/tcp ttylink
supdup 95/tcp
hostnames 101/tcp hostname # usually from sri-nic
iso-tsap 102/tcp
dictionary 103/tcp webster
x400 103/tcp # ISO Mail
x400-snd 104/tcp
csnet-ns 105/tcp
pop 109/tcp postoffice
pop2 109/tcp # Post Office
pop3 110/tcp postoffice
portmap 111/tcp
portmap 111/udp
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