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One of the comments there: "Just did a bit more digging, and IANA actually assigns port 5000 to "commplex-main" - so really any other service that's using that
by cromka 5y ago
One of the comments there:
"Just did a bit more digging, and IANA actually assigns port 5000 to "commplex-main" - so really any other service that's using that port is violating the official assignment. Based on a quick search of what commplex-main is, it's related to UPnP for network device discoverability. I'm not sure exactly what the AirPlay Receiver service does, but I get the gist that it probably does fit somewhere into the scope of UPnP-related features. At the very least, it's probably a far more accurate usage of port 5000 than some random dev servers."
So looks like they are actually IANA-compliant. Baseless rant.
- blitzar 5y agoYeah but apple said they will do no evil and this is doing evil /s
- masswerk 5y agoAlso in the same thread: it had been previously used in Win XP for SSDP, and (directly below) it has been used around the same time in early OSX for mDNSResponder (Bonjour/Rendezvous related). So, yes, stick to 8080 and friends. There is a reason for this.
- bravetraveler 5y agoAll of this aside, ports are cheap. Over 64 thousand of them to use, though some are ephemeral (lol)