Port 33333Digital Gaslight Service

TCP port 33333 is assigned to the Digital Gaslight Service, registered to George Flanagin.

transport
tcp

single transport

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
1/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 6,548 · top 15%

also known as dgi-serv

Technical Details

what runs on :33333

Digital Gaslight Service is registered on port :33333 over tcp to George Flanagin, assigned March 2010. 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 :33333

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -tlpn 'sport = :33333'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :33333

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :33333
another host
nmap -sV -p T:33333 <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 :33333

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

every listening transport is another surface to filter at the edge

security overview

no security notes recorded for :33333 yet

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

ports registered around :33333, by lookups.

risk mix of the 2 listed

  • safe100%

0 of 2 encrypted