WHATPORT(1033) whatport.net WHATPORT(1033)
1033

netinfo-local

Registered as Apple's local NetInfo port — a directory service Apple removed from macOS years ago.

TCP UDP IANA registry

Description

IANA assigns 1033 to netinfo-local, "local netinfo port", registered in 2002 by an Apple engineer. NetInfo was the directory and configuration database used by NeXTSTEP and early Mac OS X; Apple replaced it with Open Directory and dropped it entirely, so no current macOS ships a NetInfo daemon. Finding 1033 open today therefore is not NetInfo — on older Windows it is another endpoint from the pre-Vista 1025-5000 dynamic RPC range, and elsewhere it is an application that took a free low port.

Exposed to the internet?

Expose with care

The registered service is extinct, so an open 1033 is an unidentified listener; a directory or RPC service found here should stay on a private network.

Check it yourself

$ sudo lsof -nP -iTCP:1033 -sTCP:LISTEN

See also

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