WHATPORT(1999) whatport.net WHATPORT(1999)
1999

Cisco identification port

Registered to Cisco as an identification port; rarely seen in the wild.

TCP IANA registry

Description

IANA lists 1999 as tcp-id-port, "cisco identification port", registered by Cisco Systems. There is no public protocol specification for it and it is not a service you deliberately turn on. In practice a listener here is either a Cisco device or, more often, an unrelated application that grabbed a round number just below 2000.

Exposed to the internet?

Expose with care

Nothing well documented runs here, so treat an open 1999 as an unidentified listener: fingerprint it before deciding, and do not expose an unknown service to the internet.

Check it yourself

$ nc -vz TARGET 1999

See also

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