Port 573banyan-vip

Banyan-VIP identifies a little-used service assignment on TCP and UDP port 573.

Technical Details

what runs on :573

banyan-vip is registered on port :573 over tcp and udp to Denis Leclerc. 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 found open rarely. What's listening is often not the registered service, so check before you assume.

find what's listening on :573

this machine

# linux
sudo ss -tulpn 'sport = :573'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :573

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :573

another host

nmap -sV -p T:573 <host>
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:573 <host>

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

exposure of :573

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 :573 yet

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

ports registered around :573, by lookups.

port	service	proto	category	risk	views
:548	Apple Filing Protocol	TCP	File Transfer	caution	36.8k
:593	HTTP RPC Endpoint Mapper	TCPUDP	Network Services	caution	26.0k
:591	FileMaker Web Sharing	TCP	Web Services	caution	23.1k
:623	ASF-RMCP	UDP	Remote Access	caution	20.5k
:563	NNTPS	TCPUDPtls	Web Services	safe	18.1k
:546	DHCPv6 Client	TCPUDP	Network Services	caution	16.6k
:636	LDAPS	TCPUDPtls	Security	caution	15.6k
:547	DHCPv6 Server	TCPUDP	Network Services	caution	14.5k

risk mix of the 8 listed

2 of 8 encrypted