Important ports and their purposes

Arun Kumar
Cloud Techies
1 min readFeb 9, 2021

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Ports:

TCP: 53, 135, 389, 445 ,464, 636, 3268, 3269, 49152–65535
UDP: 53, 88, 135, 389, 445, 464, 636, 3268, 3269, 123, 137, 138

Purpose of the ports:

  • UDP Port 88 for Kerberos authentication
  • UDP and TCP Port 135 for domain controllers-to-domain controller and client to domain controller operations.
  • TCP Port 139 and UDP 138 for File Replication Service between domain controllers.
  • TCP and UDP Port 389 for LDAP to handle normal queries from client computers to the domain controllers.
  • TCP and UDP Port 445 for File Replication Service
  • TCP and UDP Port 464 for Kerberos Password Change
  • TCP Port 3268 and 3269 for Global Catalog from client to domain controller.
  • TCP and UDP Port 53 for DNS from client to domain controller and domain controller to domain controller.
  • UDP Port 123: NTP
  • UDP Port 137: NetBIOS Name Resolution
  • TCP Port 49152–65535: Random Port for RPC

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/service-overview-and-network-port-requirements#4

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Arun Kumar
Cloud Techies

Cloud Architect | AWS, GCP, Azure, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible