WHATPORT(4) whatport.net WHATPORT(4)
4

Unassigned

Unassigned at IANA — no registered service, nothing standard listens here.

TCP IANA registry

Description

IANA lists port 4 as Unassigned for both TCP and UDP, with no assignee and no history of a well-known service. No mainstream daemon binds it by default. Anything listening on 4 is custom software or a deliberately unusual configuration, and the only way to know what it is, is to fingerprint the listener and check which process owns the socket locally.

Exposed to the internet?

Expose with care

An unregistered low port that is open is an unidentified service; treat it as unknown until you have named the process.

Check it yourself

$ sudo lsof -nP -iTCP:4 -sTCP:LISTEN

See also

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