Ephemeral Port

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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Also called a transient port or a temporary port. Usually is on the client side. It is set up when a client application wants to connect to a server and is destroyed when the client application terminates. It has a number chosen at random that is greater than 1023.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Network95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Ephemeral Ports
possessive: Ephemeral Port's
pluralpossessive: Ephemeral Ports'

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