Port 40853ORTEC Service Discovery

UDP port assigned to ORTEC Service Discovery; no specific implementation or wider use is established.

transport
udp

single transport

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
1/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 6,604 · top 15%

also known as ortec-disc

Technical Details

what runs on :40853

ORTEC Service Discovery is registered on port :40853 over udp to Jesse Ursery, assigned November 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 :40853

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -ulpn 'sport = :40853'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :40853

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :40853
another host
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:40853 <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 :40853

risk score

1/ 10safe

routine exposure. this port is rarely the way in on its own — keep it patched and logged and move on.

network services averages 2.6 across 2,003 ports — this one sits 1.6 below.

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

udp

udp is connectionless — source addresses are trivially spoofed and it is a reflection favourite

security overview

no security notes recorded for :40853 yet

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

the 8 most looked-up other ports in network services — 2,003 ports carry that label.

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • caution100%

0 of 8 encrypted