Port 69 (UDP) โ€” TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol, used for PXE boot and network devices.

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Port
69
Protocol
UDP
Service
TFTP
Internet exposure risk
High

No authentication. Keep on isolated networks.

Check if port 69 is open

On the server, see what is listening:

sudo ss -tulpn | grep ':69 '

From another machine, test reachability:

nc -zv your-server.example.com 69

Block port 69 from the internet

With UFW (Ubuntu/Debian):

sudo ufw deny 69

With firewalld (RHEL/AlmaLinux/Rocky):

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --remove-port=69/udp && sudo firewall-cmd --reload

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