Ports·11
11
systat
TCP · 0x000B

Port 11 — systat

Others

Port 11 carries Active Users over TCP. Being at or below 1023, only root may open it on Unix.

0–1023. On Unix only root may open one.

Where it sits in 65535

A port number is 16 bits, so it stops at 65535. The narrow band at the left is everything up to 1023.

065535
Service
Active Users (systat)
Kind
Others
Protocol
TCP
Range
Well-known
Root needed
Yes
Hexadecimal
0x000B
Binary
0000000000001011
Two bytes
0 · 11

Same kind

Time, printing, play — the ones that fit nowhere else.

Ports next to it

How to read this

  • A port number is 16 bits, so it runs 0 to 65535. There is no port 65536.
  • Opening anything at or below 1023 needs root on Unix.
  • Plain and encrypted often live on different numbers — 80 and 443, for one.
  • Numbers like 3000 and 8080 were never registered; those are marked as custom.

Frequently asked questions

Q. What is port 11 used for?

Active Users (systat) uses it, over TCP.

Q. Does opening port 11 need root?

Yes. It is at or below 1023, so on Unix only root may open it.

Q. Which range does port 11 fall in?

Well-known (0–1023). In hex it is 0x000B.

Q. Does port 11 have a twin?

Not a separate one. It either was encrypted from the start or negotiates TLS on the same number.