WHATPORT(5087) whatport.net WHATPORT(5087)
5087

BIOTIC

Registered to BIOTIC, a binary IoT messaging protocol — rarely seen on real networks.

TCP IANA registry

Description

IANA assigns 5087/tcp to biotic, "Binary Internet of Things Interoperable Communication", a protocol proposal from Peter Waher aimed at resource-constrained IoT devices that combines request/response, publish/subscribe, and peer-to-peer patterns in one binary encoding. The UDP side of 5087 is Reserved. Deployment is minimal, so a listener on this port is much more likely to be an unrelated application than a BIOTIC endpoint.

Exposed to the internet?

Expose with care

Identify the actual service before opening it; the registration alone says nothing about whether what is listening authenticates or encrypts.

Check it yourself

$ sudo lsof -nP -iTCP:5087 -sTCP:LISTEN

See also

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