# WHATPORT(9968)

## NAME

port 9968 — Unassigned — No IANA assignment, no well-known service — an unremarkable high port.

Protocol: TCP  
IANA registry

## DESCRIPTION

IANA has nothing registered on 9968, and Nmap's database lists it as unknown, open on about 0.04% of scanned hosts. The nearest registration in the range is 9966 (odnsp, OKI Data's network setting protocol), which has no bearing on 9968. Anything answering here is application-specific and needs to be identified from its banner.

## EXPOSURE

**Expose with care.** Unknown protocol, unknown auth. Identify the owning process before treating the port as safe to expose.

## CHECK

```sh
nmap -sV -p 9968 TARGET
```

## SEE ALSO

- iana — [IANA port registry — 9968 (no assignment)](https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=9968) (iana.org)
- source — [nmap-services — Nmap's port frequency database](https://github.com/nmap/nmap/blob/master/nmap-services) (github.com)

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