Appendix E Services

Table 83 Examples of Services (continued)

NAME

PROTOCOL

PORT(S)

DESCRIPTION

FTP

TCP

20

File Transfer Program, a program to

 

TCP

21

enable fast transfer of files, including

 

large files that may not be possible by

 

 

 

 

 

 

e-mail.

 

 

 

 

H.323

TCP

1720

NetMeeting uses this protocol.

 

 

 

 

HTTP

TCP

80

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol - a

 

 

 

client/server protocol for the world

 

 

 

wide web.

 

 

 

 

HTTPS

TCP

443

HTTPS is a secured http session often

 

 

 

used in e-commerce.

 

 

 

 

ICMP

User-Defined

1

Internet Control Message Protocol is

 

 

 

often used for diagnostic purposes.

 

 

 

 

ICQ

UDP

4000

This is a popular Internet chat

 

 

 

program.

 

 

 

 

IGMP

User-Defined

2

Internet Group Multicast Protocol is

(MULTICAST)

 

 

used when sending packets to a

 

 

 

specific group of hosts.

 

 

 

 

IKE

UDP

500

The Internet Key Exchange algorithm

 

 

 

is used for key distribution and

 

 

 

management.

 

 

 

 

IMAP4

TCP

143

The Internet Message Access Protocol

 

 

 

is used for e-mail.

 

 

 

 

IMAP4S

TCP

993

This is a more secure version of IMAP4

 

 

 

that runs over SSL.

 

 

 

 

IRC

TCP/UDP

6667

This is another popular Internet chat

 

 

 

program.

 

 

 

 

MSN Messenger

TCP

1863

Microsoft Networks’ messenger

 

 

 

service uses this protocol.

 

 

 

 

NetBIOS

TCP/UDP

137

The Network Basic Input/Output

 

TCP/UDP

138

System is used for communication

 

between computers in a LAN.

 

 

 

 

TCP/UDP

139

 

 

TCP/UDP

445

 

 

 

 

 

NEW-ICQ

TCP

5190

An Internet chat program.

 

 

 

 

NEWS

TCP

144

A protocol for news groups.

 

 

 

 

NFS

UDP

2049

Network File System - NFS is a client/

 

 

 

server distributed file service that

 

 

 

provides transparent file sharing for

 

 

 

network environments.

 

 

 

 

NNTP

TCP

119

Network News Transport Protocol is

 

 

 

the delivery mechanism for the

 

 

 

USENET newsgroup service.

 

 

 

 

PING

User-Defined

1

Packet INternet Groper is a protocol

 

 

 

that sends out ICMP echo requests to

 

 

 

test whether or not a remote host is

 

 

 

reachable.

 

 

 

 

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