Port 2810Active Net Steward

TCP and UDP port 2810 is assigned to Active Net Steward, a service with no widely documented deployment or protocol behavior.

transport
tcp · udp

2 transports registered

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
1/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 4,288 · top 23%

Technical Details

what runs on :2810

Active Net Steward is registered on port :2810 over tcp and udp to Keith Morley. 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 never observed open, so if it's open on your network it's more likely a custom or misconfigured service than the registered one.

find what's listening on :2810

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -tulpn 'sport = :2810'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :2810

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :2810
another host
nmap -sV -p T:2810 <host>
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:2810 <host>

run it? the handshake, the implementations you meet in the wild and the flags that matter come from the engineers who do.

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Security Information

exposure of :2810

risk 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 :2810 yet

known exploits, hardening advice, what a compromise looks like — suggest an edit if you know its exposure.

ports registered around :2810, by lookups.

portservicerisk
:2809IBM WebSphere WAS Bootstrap RMIcaution
:2809CORBA IIOP URLcaution
:2868Norman NPEPcaution
:2784WWW developmentsafe
:2765qip-audupsafe
:2767UADTCsafe
:2811GridFTPcaution
:2771Vergence CMsafe

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • safe50%
  • caution50%

0 of 8 encrypted