WHATPORT(9941) whatport.net WHATPORT(9941)
9941

Unassigned

No IANA registration and no well-known service — whatever answers here is somebody's own application.

TCP IANA registry

Description

IANA has no service name assigned to 9941 in the service-name and port-number registry, and Nmap's service database lists it as unknown, open on roughly 0.015% of scanned hosts. That leaves no protocol you can assume from the number alone. In practice a listener on a port like this is an internal agent, a container port mapping, or an app that grabbed a free high number. Fingerprint the service instead of trusting the port.

Exposed to the internet?

Expose with care

An unidentified listener is an unidentified authentication story. Find the process that owns the socket before deciding whether it belongs on a public interface.

Check it yourself

$ sudo lsof -nP -iTCP:9941 -sTCP:LISTEN

See also

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