Thursday, April 28, 2011

List of reserved ports that preferred to avoid use it when creating a new web site for "share Point"


Each "SharePoint" developer or administrator know the issue of opening a website hosted on another port of  "80" on any different browser than "IE" Like (Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, ...etc). 
At the past I used to search for a way to open these blocked ports for the different browsers, but once when I was searching for a solution for this issue for safari I found a very important piece of information that made me realize I was mistaken when I believe that those ports that I use are non-reserved, 
This info is a list of the reserved ports that we must avoid use it when creating a website for "SharePoint" or any website that use port number different than "80", and here is the ports list with a hint for each port reserved for



// The blocked port list matches the port blocking mozilla implements
// See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/PortBanning.html for more information
1,    // tcpmux        
7,    // echo    
9,    // discard        
11,   // systat  
13,   // daytime        
15,   // netstat
17,   // qotd            
19,   // chargen
20,   // FTP-data
21,   // FTP-control      
22,   // SSH            
23,   // telnet  
25,   // SMTP    
37,   // time    
42,   // name    
43,   // nicname
53,   // domain
77,   // priv-rjs
79,   // finger  
87,   // ttylink
95,   // supdup  
101,  // hostriame
102,  // iso-tsap
103,  // gppitnp
104,  // acr-nema
109,  // POP2    
110,  // POP3    
111,  // sunrpc  
113,  // auth    
115,  // SFTP    
117,  // uucp-path
119,  // nntp    
123,  // NTP
135,  // loc-srv / epmap        
139,  // netbios
143,  // IMAP2
179,  // BGP
389,  // LDAP
465,  // SMTP+SSL
512,  // print / exec        
513,  // login        
514,  // shell        
515,  // printer        
526,  // tempo        
530,  // courier      
531,  // Chat        
532,  // netnews      
540,  // UUCP      
556,  // remotefs  
563,  // NNTP+SSL
587,  // ESMTP
601,  // syslog-conn
636,  // LDAP+SSL
993,  // IMAP+SSL
995,  // POP3+SSL
2049, // NFS
4045, // lockd
6000, // X11      
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