Port 8160Patrol
An obscure IANA assignment named Patrol, registered to Portnoy Boxman; no common deployment or documented protocol is known.
- transport
- tcp · udp
- in transit
- cleartext
- assignment
- official
- risk
- 1/10
- lookups
- 0
2 transports registered
payload readable on path
registered with iana
safe
rank 993 of 6,005 · top 17%
Technical Details
what runs on :8160Patrol is registered on port :8160 over tcp and udp to Portnoy Boxman. 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 :8160
# linux
sudo ss -tulpn 'sport = :8160'
# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :8160
# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :8160nmap -sV -p T:8160 <host>
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:8160 <host>run it? the handshake, the implementations you meet in the wild and the flags that matter come from the engineers who do.
add technical detailsSecurity Information
exposure of :8160risk 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 :8160 yet
known exploits, hardening advice, what a compromise looks like — suggest an edit if you know its exposure.
Related Ports
ports registered around :8160, by lookups.
| port | service | risk | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| :8123 | Polipo Proxy | TCPtls | Web Services | caution | 10.1k |
| :8200 | GoToMyPC | TCP | Remote Access | caution | 9.9k |
| :8118 | Privoxy Web Proxy | TCPtls | Web Services | caution | 9.8k |
| :8194 | Sophos RMS | TCP | Security | caution | 8.3k |
| :8222 | VMware Server UI (Insecure) | Web Services | caution | 8.2k | |
| :8192 | Sophos RMS | TCP | Security | caution | 7.4k |
| :8193 | Sophos RMS | TCP | Security | caution | 7.0k |
| :8116 | Check Point CCP | UDP | Security | caution | 5.3k |
risk mix of the 8 listed
- caution100%
2 of 8 encrypted