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1417

Timbuktu Service 1

The first of Timbuktu Pro's four service ports — remote control of a Mac or Windows desktop.

TCP IANA registry

Description

Timbuktu Pro, the Motorola/Netopia remote-control product that was a staple of Mac administration, opens connections on port 407 and then carries each service on its own TCP port: 1417 through 1420 for control, screen observation, and file send/exchange. IANA registers 1417 as timbuktu-srv1. The product is discontinued and unsupported, so an open 1417 today means an old workstation still running an abandoned remote-control agent.

Exposed to the internet?

Do not expose

An unmaintained remote-desktop agent with no vendor security updates; it should not be reachable from any untrusted network, and preferably should not be running at all.

Check it yourself

$ nmap -Pn -p 407,1417-1420 TARGET

See also

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