5060
sip
TCP and UDP · 0x13C4
Port 5060 — sip
Messaging
Port 5060 carries SIP call setup over TCP and UDP. Above 1023, so an ordinary user can open it. Its encrypted twin is 5061.
1024–49151. Meant to be applied for, though some numbers here are custom by habit.
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
- SIP call setup (sip)
- Kind
- Messaging
- Protocol
- TCP and UDP
- Range
- Registered
- Root needed
- No
- Hexadecimal
- 0x13C4
- Binary
- 0001001111000100
- Two bytes
- 19 · 196
- Encrypted twin
- 5061
Same kind
Passing messages along, or queueing them up.
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 5060 used for?
SIP call setup (sip) uses it, over both TCP and UDP.
Q. Does opening port 5060 need root?
No. It is above 1023, so an ordinary user can open it.
Q. Which range does port 5060 fall in?
Registered (1024–49151). In hex it is 0x13C4.
Q. Is there an encrypted version of port 5060?
Port 5061 does the same thing wrapped in TLS.