✓Port 42 🪦

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Service

name

Protocol

UDP

Status

🪦 Obsolete — no longer in active use

Description

The ARPA Host Name Server Protocol (NAMESERVER) is an obsolete network protocol used in translating a host name to an Internet address. IANA Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port 42 for NAMESERVER; this port is more commonly used by the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) on Microsoft operating systems.

RFC

• RFC 756 — NIC Name Server - A Datagram Based Information Utility

Citations

• IANA registry

Service

wins

Protocol

TCP

Description

Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) is a Microsoft name resolution service, introduced in 1994 with Windows NT 3.5, for translating NetBIOS names to IP addresses. NetBIOS names are an older naming convention used for local name resolution before DNS became ubiquitous.

Citations

• WINS (Wikipedia)