Port 9162apani3

TCP and UDP port 9162 is assigned to apani3, a little-documented service registered to Neal Taylor.

transport: tcp · udp
in transit: cleartext
assignment: official
risk: 1/10
lookups: 0

Technical Details

what runs on :9162

apani3 is registered on port :9162 over tcp and udp to Neal Taylor. 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 :9162

this machine

# linux
sudo ss -tulpn 'sport = :9162'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :9162

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :9162

another host

nmap -sV -p T:9162 <host>
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:9162 <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 :9162

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 :9162 yet

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

Record

iana registry entry

port: :9162
service: apani3
transport: TCPUDP
encryption: cleartext
assignment: iana registered
risk: 1/10safe
category: uncategorised
usage: IANA assigns TCP and UDP port 9162 to apani3 and lists Neal Taylor as the registrant. There is no established public description of what software uses it, and it has not appeared open in the cited Nmap scan data.
lookups: 0rank 993
added: 2026-10-15
updated: 2026-10-15
references: IANA service name registry — port 9162

Something wrong?

This record is maintained by the engineers who use port 9162. Every field on it is editable — change what's wrong, say how you know, and a reviewer publishes it, usually within a minute. Last touched 2026-10-15.

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ports registered around :9162, by lookups.

port	service	proto	category	risk	views
:9105	Xadmin Control Daemon	TCPUDP	Remote Access	caution	19.9k
:9119	MXit Messenger	TCPUDP	Voice and Chat	caution	9.5k
:9100	PDL Data Stream	TCP	Network Services	caution	9.4k
:9110	SSMP	UDP	Network Services	caution	6.6k
:9102	Bacula FD	TCPUDP	File Transfer	caution	6.5k
:9101	Bacula Director	TCPUDP	File Transfer	caution	6.1k
:9103	Bacula Storage Daemon	TCPUDP	File Transfer	caution	5.4k
:9200	WAP Wireless Session Protocol (WSP)	TCPUDP	Network Services	safe	0

risk mix of the 8 listed

safe13%
caution88%

0 of 8 encrypted

Port :9162apani3

Technical Details

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Port 9162apani3