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Summary
- // if you see it open
- RFC 7450 describes resource-consumption risks from spoofed AMT messages and bandwidth costs from unicast replication, but does not establish TCP-specific implications for port 2268.
About port 2268.
IANA registers amt on TCP port 2268, with the description “AMT.” The supplied evidence does not establish what software, if any, uses this TCP endpoint or whether it is running on a particular host. Its public-internet suitability is therefore Unknown.
RFC 7450 defines Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT) for delivering multicast traffic to receivers without multicast connectivity to the source network. It describes UDP encapsulation and unicast replication. That protocol description does not establish how the separate TCP assignment is used, so do not treat the RFC’s UDP behavior as evidence of a TCP service.
AMT is designed for deployment at network borders where access and provisioning can be managed by a service provider. The RFC also describes potential resource consumption from spoofed messages and bandwidth costs from unicast replication. These are protocol-context considerations; the evidence does not establish a specific TCP exposure or risk at port 2268.
- Service
- IANA assigns
amtto TCP port 2268; actual endpoint use is Unknown. [Confirmed] — https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.csv - Exposure
- Unknown; the supplied evidence does not establish intended public access for the TCP assignment.
- Security context
- RFC 7450 discusses resource exhaustion and unicast replication costs in its AMT protocol context; TCP-specific implications are Unknown. [Confirmed] — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7450.txt
- IANA service name
amt[Confirmed] — https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.csv- IANA description
- AMT [Confirmed] — https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.csv
- RFC reference
- RFC 7450 [Confirmed] — https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.csv
- AMT protocol transport described
- UDP encapsulation [Confirmed] — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7450.txt
- TCP endpoint software or deployment
- Unknown [Unknown] — https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.csv
Service assignments.
| Name | Protocol | Description | Open frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| amt | TCP | — | 0.00% |
| amt | UDP | — | 0.00% |
Service assignments from the IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry, with open-frequency data from nmap-services.