Eddaman3
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Q: Are several open ports normal for new iPhone

I just got a new iPhone 6 Plus last week & I've got an app called iNet that I use to monitor my wifi network. Well, when I do a network scan it also gives me the ability to run a portscan. When doing so it always fIndia several ports on my iPhone. Is this normal?  I've restored my phone as a new phone & they still find they're way back on to it. The ports I find always seem to change also. I can provide some screenshots if needed?  Thanks in advance

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.1.x)

Posted on Feb 24, 2015 10:30 AM

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Q: Are several open ports normal for new iPhone

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  • by chattphotos,

    chattphotos chattphotos Feb 24, 2015 10:42 AM in response to Eddaman3
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    Feb 24, 2015 10:42 AM in response to Eddaman3

    The iPhone is a computer... it has to use ports to connect to the internet...

    What ports are they?

     

    80/443 and 5353?

    TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products - Apple Support

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    Eddaman3 Eddaman3 Feb 24, 2015 11:14 AM in response to chattphotos
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    Feb 24, 2015 11:14 AM in response to chattphotos

    The first thing that I noticed was that it was running a Bonjour Service called “What’s my name”. This is what initially caught my eye and the reason i did the port scan on it.  Below are some of the ports it said were open.

     

    443  http protocol over TSL/SSL

    464  kpasswd

    3389 MS WBT Server

    587 Submission

    548 AFP over TCP

    88 Kerberos

    2049 Network File System - Sun Microsystems

    514 cmd

    487 saft Simple Asynchronous File Transfer

    494 POV-Ray

    623 DMTF out-of-band web services management protocol

    19 Character Generator

    372 ListProcessor

    377 NEC Corporation

    629 3Com AMP3

    729 IBM Netview DM/6000 Server/Client

    763 763/tcp

    624 Crypto Admin

    662 PFTP

    132 cisco SYSMAINT

    210 ANSI Z39.50

    347 Fatmen Server

    422 Ariel 3

    442 cvc_hostd

    544 krcmd

    614 SSLshell

     

    There are a whole lot more but these are the only ones I made note of.  There are many that just say "Reserved" or "No description found".  I'm hoping that this is all normal but I wanted to be sure.  Thanks!