# WHATPORT(2009)

## NAME

port 2009 — news — Registered as news — unrelated to NNTP, which lives on 119.

Protocol: TCP  
IANA registry

## DESCRIPTION

IANA registers 2009/tcp as news and 2009/udp as whosockami, with no descriptions. The name is misleading: Usenet news is NNTP on 119, not here, and nothing maintained claims 2009. An open port here is most likely Cisco reverse telnet to line 9 or an arbitrary local service.

## EXPOSURE

**Expose with care.** Do not trust the registered name — identify the real listener before exposing it.

## CHECK

```sh
nc -vz TARGET 2009
```

## SEE ALSO

- iana — [IANA port registry — 2009 (news)](https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=2009) (iana.org)

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HTML: <https://whatport.net/2009/> · JSON: <https://whatport.net/2009.json> · full dataset: <https://whatport.net/ports.json>