WHATPORT(2022) whatport.net WHATPORT(2022)
2022

down (IANA) / alternate SSH in practice

Registered as down, but in the field it is usually SSH moved off 22.

TCP IANA registry

Description

IANA registers 2022/tcp as down and 2022/udp as xinuexpansion2, neither of which corresponds to real software. The common reason this port is open is a second sshd, or a container or appliance publishing SSH on an alternate port to keep 22 free on the host. Connect and read the banner: a real SSH server announces itself with a line like SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.6 before anything else.

Exposed to the internet?

Expose with care

Moving SSH off 22 only quiets the logs, it is not a control — if it is SSH, judge it as SSH (public-key only, passwords disabled); if it is something else, identify it first.

Check it yourself

$ nc -w 3 TARGET 2022 | head -1

See also

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