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Brainfuck t1_j22x9ec wrote

Yes they are standardized and default ports. However many a times things aren't run on default ports.

Most of the standardized ports are below 1024. These are called privileged ports and only an Administrator can open them. This is additional security to make sure that a malicious user for example cannot run a webserver on port 80 to hack users.

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