Port 8232Homenet Control Protocol over DTLS
Encrypted Homenet Control Protocol traffic for exchanging configuration and topology information between home-network nodes.
- transport
- udp
- in transit
- encrypted
- assignment
- official
- risk
- 2/10
- lookups
- 0
single transport
payload protected on the wire
registered with iana
safe
rank 994 of 3,368 · top 29%
also known as hncp-dtls-port, HNCP
Technical Details
what runs on :8232HNCP uses UDP port 8232 with Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) to exchange distributed home-network control information, including node, interface, prefix, and topology state. Implementations use HNCP for coordination among routers and related nodes; the protocol is intended for the local Homenet environment rather than general internet-facing access.
Security Information
exposure of :8232risk score
2/ 10safe
routine exposure. this port is rarely the way in on its own — keep it patched and logged and move on.
network services averages 2.8 across 1,173 ports — this one sits 0.8 below.
in transit
encrypted
payloads are protected on the wire
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
This endpoint should generally be restricted to trusted local network interfaces and should not be exposed to the public internet. DTLS provides confidentiality and integrity in normal operation, but an exposed implementation can still be targeted with unsolicited handshakes or malformed HNCP messages, and the security of node authentication and key provisioning remains deployment-dependent.
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0 of 8 encrypted