Tech Reference » TCP Port » Port Numbers - Well known ones

All the operating systems now honor the tradition of permitting only the super-user open the ports numbered 0 to 1023.  These well-known ports (also called standard ports) are assigned to services by the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, www.iana.org).   On Unix, the text file named /etc/ services (on Windows 2000 the file named %windir%\ system32\ drivers\ etc\ services) lists these service names and the ports they use.  Here are a few lines extracted from this file:

echo             7/tcp     Echo
ftp-data 20/udp File Transfer [Default Data]
ftp 21/tcp File Transfer [Control]
ssh 22/tcp SSH Remote Login Protocol
telnet 23/tcp Telnet
domain 53/udp Domain Name Server
www-http 80/tcp World Wide Web HTTP

Updated On: 15.02.17

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