Port 161 (UDP) โ€” SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol polling.

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Port
161
Protocol
UDP
Service
SNMP
Internet exposure risk
High

Default "public" community strings leak device info. Use SNMPv3 and restrict by IP.

Check if port 161 is open

On the server, see what is listening:

sudo ss -tulpn | grep ':161 '

From another machine, test reachability:

nc -zv your-server.example.com 161

Block port 161 from the internet

With UFW (Ubuntu/Debian):

sudo ufw deny 161

With firewalld (RHEL/AlmaLinux/Rocky):

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --remove-port=161/udp && sudo firewall-cmd --reload

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