Registered · Cross-platform

5050 Yahoo Messenger / Mesos

TCP Unofficial
UDP
SCTP
DCCP

What it is

Yahoo Messenger; also Apache Mesos master.

When / why

Legacy IM or cluster scheduler.

Protocol status detail

TransportStatusMeaning
TCP Unofficial Not assigned by IANA, but standardized, specified, or widely used on this port.
UDP Not applicable for this transport.
SCTP Not applicable for this transport.
DCCP Not applicable for this transport.

Port range

Registered (1024–49151). Assigned by IANA on request; usable without elevated privileges on most systems.

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Firewall rules for port 5050

Copy-ready inbound rules for the active transports. Replace every <source> placeholder with the specific host, subnet, or CIDR that should reach this port.

ufw

sudo ufw allow proto tcp from <source> to any port 5050

Allow TCP 5050 (Yahoo Messenger / Mesos). Replace <source> with the network/host that should reach it.

firewalld

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="<source>" port port="5050" protocol="tcp" accept'

Allow TCP 5050 (Yahoo Messenger / Mesos) from <source>. Run 'firewall-cmd --reload' afterwards.

nftables

nft add rule inet filter input ip saddr <source> tcp dport 5050 accept

Allow TCP 5050 (Yahoo Messenger / Mesos). Assumes table 'inet filter' with an 'input' chain.

iptables

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s <source> --dport 5050 -j ACCEPT

Allow TCP 5050 (Yahoo Messenger / Mesos). Persist with iptables-save/netfilter-persistent.

Azure NSG

az network nsg rule create -g <resource-group> --nsg-name <nsg> -n Allow-yahoomessengermesos-5050 --priority 1000 --access Allow --direction Inbound --protocol TCP --source-address-prefixes <source> --destination-port-ranges 5050

Inbound rule for 5050 (Yahoo Messenger / Mesos). Set <source> to a CIDR; lower priority number = higher precedence.

AWS Security Group

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id <sg-id> --ip-permissions IpProtocol=tcp,FromPort=5050,ToPort=5050,IpRanges="[{CidrIp=<source-cidr>}]"

Inbound TCP 5050 (Yahoo Messenger / Mesos). Replace <source-cidr> (e.g. 10.0.0.0/16).

GCP firewall

gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-yahoomessengermesos-5050 --direction=INGRESS --action=ALLOW --rules=tcp:5050 --source-ranges=<source-cidr> --network=<network>

Ingress rule for 5050 (Yahoo Messenger / Mesos). Scope with --source-ranges and optionally --target-tags.

Windows netsh

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow Yahoo Messenger / Mesos 5050/TCP" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=5050 remoteip=<source>

Inbound TCP 5050 (Yahoo Messenger / Mesos). Set remoteip to a host/subnet; 'any' is discouraged.

Windows PowerShell

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow Yahoo Messenger / Mesos 5050/TCP" -Direction Inbound -Action Allow -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 5050 -RemoteAddress <source>

Inbound TCP 5050 (Yahoo Messenger / Mesos). Replace <source> with a host or subnet.

Rules are generated only for transports marked active for this port. They default to an inbound allow with an explicit source placeholder — never any. Review direction, scope, and rule precedence before applying in production.