TCP 6969
Synopsis
- TCP port 6969 is commonly used by BitTorrent trackers that expose an HTTP announce interface (the BitTorrent tracker protocol over HTTP).
- Real-world tracker software that uses or defaults to 6969/TCP includes opentracker and BitTornado’s bttrack; Vuze/Azureus’s built‑in tracker also historically defaulted to 6969/TCP.
- Many public BitTorrent trackers have historically listened on 6969 (e.g., well-known opentracker-based public trackers), and self-hosted trackers frequently bind their HTTP interface to this port.
- Security note: because 6969 is widely associated with trackers, it is often scanned, and trackers on this port (especially the UDP variants running alongside) have been abused for reflection/amplification DDoS, though the HTTP/TCP side itself is not an amplification vector.
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