Rendomly used port 135 used in Asp.net application

Question

Hi All,

Rendomly used port 135 in Asp.net application. we have Application server and Clustered MSSQL 2008 DB server. All the session status will be keep in state DB.

IIS 7.5
MSSQL 2008 R2 (Clustered)

Application is running properly in some situation the application call 135 port when a trying to logging to the application.

Best Regards,
Omantha

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Junior System Support Engineer i-Context Content Convergence (Pvt) Ltd

Answer 1

Hi,

Port 135 is used by MS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers

Microsoft EPMAP (End Point Mapper), also known as DCE/RPC Locator service,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13">[14]</sup> used to remotely manage services including DHCP server, DNS server and WINS. Also used by DCOM

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Sebastian Sajaroff Senior DBA Pharmacies Jean Coutu

Answer 2

In my situation is this port used for Clustering service?

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Junior System Support Engineer i-Context Content Convergence (Pvt) Ltd