2 entries are registered on port 3785. It is a registered port (1024–49151) — IANA records an assignee, but nothing stops other software from listening here, which is why the number carries more than one entry.
services registered on this number
2 transports in use
entries encrypted on the wire
1 of 2 iana-registered
| port | service | proto | category | risk | views |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| :3785 | Ventrilo Voice Chat | UDP | Gaming | caution | 4.4k |
| :3785 | Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Echo | TCPUDP | Network Services | safe | 0 |
Port 3785 is primarily used by Ventrilo, a popular Voice over IP (VoIP) client that facilitates group voice communications, often leveraged by gamers and online communities for real-time audio chat during gameplay and collaboration.
port 3785 as Ventrilo Voice Chat →BFD Echo uses UDP port 3785 to test whether packets can traverse a network forwarding path and return.
port 3785 as Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Echo →The registry says what 3785 is registered to. What is listening on it right now is decided by the host, and only the host can be asked. Each of these prints the process behind the socket.
ss -ltnp | grep ':3785\b'lsof -nP -iTCP:3785 -sTCP:LISTENnetstat -ano | findstr :3785On Linux and Windows the process name comes back with the socket; on macOS lsof needs sudo to name a process that isn't yours. Match what it prints against the 2 entries above.
A port number is not a service. Anything may listen on 3785 — what you actually met is decided by the host, not the registry. If a service is missing here, it belongs in the registry.
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