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Port 9001 (Tor ORPort / MinIO console)

Common Tor relay ORPort (relays choose their port), the MinIO web console in many deployments, and Supervisor's inet HTTP server.

Registered (user) port, 1024-49151 TCP Proxies and Tor Expose only to trusted sources

What port 9001 is used for

Common Tor relay ORPort (relays choose their port), the MinIO web console in many deployments, and Supervisor's inet HTTP server.

Security: should port 9001 be open?

Expose only to trusted sources. Tor relays must expose their ORPort. Admin consoles such as MinIO or Supervisor should not be public.

IANA assignment

Service nameProtoDescriptionAssigneeReference
etlservicemgr TCP ETL Service Manager Stephen McCrea -
etlservicemgr UDP ETL Service Manager Stephen McCrea -

Registry dates for this port: registered 2002-03.

Check what is listening on port 9001

Linux: is anything listening on TCP 9001?
sudo ss -tlnp 'sport = :9001'
Linux / macOS: which process owns the port
sudo lsof -nP -i :9001
Older Linux / BSD (net-tools)
sudo netstat -tlnp | grep ':9001 '
Windows (Command Prompt)
netstat -ano | findstr :9001
Windows (PowerShell)
Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 9001 -State Listen | Select LocalAddress,OwningProcess

Test it from outside

From another machine
nc -vz -w 5 HOST 9001
From Windows
Test-NetConnection HOST -Port 9001

Allow only trusted sources on port 9001 in the firewall

Replace 203.0.113.10 with the address or network you trust. With ufw, make sure the default incoming policy is deny.

ufw (one trusted source)
sudo ufw allow from 203.0.113.10 to any port 9001 proto tcp
iptables
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9001 -s 203.0.113.10 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9001 -j DROP
nftables
sudo nft add rule inet filter input ip saddr 203.0.113.10 tcp dport 9001 accept
sudo nft add rule inet filter input tcp dport 9001 drop
Windows Firewall
New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName 'TCP 9001 trusted' -Direction Inbound -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 9001 -RemoteAddress 203.0.113.10 -Action Allow

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Assignment data: IANA port number registry (public domain), retrieved 2026-11-10.