Ports

✳️ Ports :

Ports are a kind of subaddress. The IP address is the primary address and the port is the subaddress. Think of the IP address as the street address of a building and then the port as the apartment number. I need the street address to get to the right building, but I need the apartment address to find who I am looking for. This is the same with ports. The IP address gets us to right machine, but the port takes us to correct service, say HTTP on port 80.

💠 There are 65,536 ports. The first 1,024 are generally referred to as the common ports. People obviously don't remember all 65,536 ports (unless they are savant), or even the 1,024 most common ports. As a hacker, there are a few ports that you should know by heart:

🔹 20 FTP

🔹 21 FTP

🔹 22 SSH

🔹 23 Telnet

🔹 25 SMTP

🔹 53 DNS

🔹 69 TFTP

🔹 80 HTTP

🔹 443 HTTPS or HTTP over SSL

🔹 3389 RDP

I will cover subnetting, IPv6, TCP/IP, and more on our channel soon..

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has assigned port numbers to commonly used services like SSH, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, and others. Here are some of the most common ones:

Port Number	Usage
20	File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Data Transfer
21	File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Command Control
22	Secure Shell (SSH)
23	Telnet - Remote login service, unencrypted text messages
25	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) E-mail Routing
53	Domain Name System (DNS) service
80	Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) used in World Wide Web
110	Post Office Protocol (POP3) used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a server
119	Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
123	Network Time Protocol (NTP)
143	Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Management of Digital Mail
161	Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
194	Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
443	HTTP Secure (HTTPS) HTTP over TLS/SSL

 

In my work, I most commonly come across ports 80, 443, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, and 53. Knowing these ports can help you work more efficiently.

What ports do you use the most, and why?

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