Port 260Openport
Port 260 is assigned as Openport, a little-documented service registered to John Marland.
- transport
- tcp · udp
- in transit
- cleartext
- assignment
- official
- risk
- 1/10
- lookups
- 0
2 transports registered
payload readable on path
registered with iana
safe
rank 993 of 5,666 · top 18%
Technical Details
what runs on :260Openport is registered on port :260 over tcp and udp to John Marland. We don't have a technical write-up for it beyond the IANA registry entry.
In nmap's internet-wide scan data this port is found open rarely. What's listening is often not the registered service, so check before you assume.
find what's listening on :260
# linux
sudo ss -tulpn 'sport = :260'
# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :260
# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :260nmap -sV -p T:260 <host>
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:260 <host>run it? the handshake, the implementations you meet in the wild and the flags that matter come from the engineers who do.
add technical detailsSecurity Information
exposure of :260risk score
1/ 10safe
routine exposure. this port is rarely the way in on its own — keep it patched and logged and move on.
in transit
cleartext
credentials and payloads are readable by anyone on path
assignment
official
registered with iana for this service — scanners fingerprint it by number
reachable over
tcp · udp
udp is connectionless — source addresses are trivially spoofed and it is a reflection favourite
security overview
no security notes recorded for :260 yet
known exploits, hardening advice, what a compromise looks like — suggest an edit if you know its exposure.
Related Ports
ports registered around :260, by lookups.
| port | service | risk | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| :311 | Mac OS X Server Admin | TCP | Web Services | caution | 23.7k |
| :201 | AppleTalk Routing | TCPUDP | Network Services | caution | 19.7k |
| :213 | IPX | TCPUDP | Network Services | caution | 13.9k |
| :264 | Border Gateway Multicast Protocol | TCPUDP | Network Services | caution | 12.2k |
| :323 | Internet Message Mapping Protocol (IMMP) | TCPUDP | caution | 9.0k | |
| :210 | ANSI Z39.50 | TCPUDP | Databases | caution | 9.0k |
| :199 | SMUX (SNMP Multiplexer) | TCPUDP | Network Services | caution | 9.0k |
| :220 | IMAP v3 | TCPUDP | caution | 8.6k |
risk mix of the 8 listed
- caution100%
0 of 8 encrypted