WHATPORT(1043) whatport.net WHATPORT(1043)
1043

boinc-client (BOINC Client Control)

Registered for BOINC client control, but the BOINC client actually listens on 31416 — the registration does not match the shipping software.

TCP UDP IANA registry

Description

IANA assigns 1043 to boinc-client, "BOINC Client Control", registered in 2004 by BOINC's project lead. BOINC is Berkeley's volunteer distributed-computing platform, and its client exposes a GUI RPC interface that managers such as BOINC Manager connect to — but that interface listens on TCP 31416, not 1043, and can be moved with --gui_rpc_port. So the registration is stale relative to the software: seeing 1043 open does not indicate BOINC, while seeing 31416 open does. The GUI RPC port binds to localhost by default and is guarded by a password in gui_rpc_auth.cfg.

Exposed to the internet?

Do not expose

BOINC's control interface can start, stop, and reconfigure work on the host; keep it on loopback (or a VPN) rather than exposing either 1043 or 31416 to the internet.

Check it yourself

$ nmap -Pn -sV -p 1043,31416 TARGET

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