Port 4441Netblox Protocol

UDP port 4441 is assigned to Netblox Protocol, a little-documented service registered by Brian S Locke.

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 5,186 · top 19%

Technical Details

what runs on :4441

Netblox Protocol is registered on port :4441 over udp to Brian S Locke, assigned July 2008. 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 :4441

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -ulpn 'sport = :4441'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :4441

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :4441
another host
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:4441 <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 :4441

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

udp

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

security overview

no security notes recorded for :4441 yet

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

ports registered around :4441, by lookups.

portservicerisk
:4500IPSec NAT Traversalcaution
:4433Axence nVisioncaution
:4449PrivateWiresafe
:4378Cambridge Pixel SPx Displaysafe
:4404Asigra DS-System Monitoring/Managementsafe
:4447N1-RMGMTsafe
:4443Pharossafe
:4444Kerberos 524caution

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • safe63%
  • caution38%

1 of 8 encrypted