WHATPORT(2040) whatport.net WHATPORT(2040)
2040

lam (registration only)

IANA name "lam", undocumented — three letters and nothing else.

TCP UDP IANA registry

Description

TCP and UDP 2040 carry the registered service name lam, with no description, assignee or reference in the IANA registry, and the same bare name appears in /etc/services on most Unix systems. There is no published protocol and no common implementation; Nmap sees it open on roughly 0.03% of hosts. The short name collides with unrelated software people recognise, so do not read a product into it.

Exposed to the internet?

Expose with care

An unnamed service in practice. Identify the listening process before exposing it anywhere.

Check it yourself

$ sudo lsof -nP -iTCP:2040 -sTCP:LISTEN

See also

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