WHATPORT(555) whatport.net WHATPORT(555)
555

dsf

Registered as dsf with no description and no known implementation — an open 555 is unidentified software.

TCP IANA registry

Description

IANA lists TCP and UDP 555 under the service name "dsf" and gives no description, no assignee note, and no reference document; macOS ships the same bare entry in /etc/services. No maintained software is known to implement it. The number appears in circulated lists of trojan ports from the late 1990s, but those lists are unsourced folklore rather than documentation, so the only defensible statement is that anything listening on 555 has to be identified by fingerprinting it directly.

Exposed to the internet?

Do not expose

An unexplained listener on a registered-but-unused system port is a finding to chase down, not a service to expose.

Check it yourself

$ nc -vz -w 3 TARGET 555

See also

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