Detect Open Ports and Running Services

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Objective:

Develop a Python script that can detect all open ports on the local system and list the corresponding running services.

Features:

• Scan and identify open ports on the local machine.
• Determine the corresponding services or applications associated with each open port.

Example Usage:

# Example usage of the port detection script
import port_scanner

# Detect open ports and running services
port_scanner.detect_open_ports()

Difficulty: Beginner/Intermediate

Tags: Python, Networking, Scripting

Additional Information:

• Consider using the socket module for port scanning.
• Ensure that the script handles different protocols (TCP/UDP).

Contribution Guidelines

The updated guidelines can be found here.

Note:

• folder_name: port_scanner
• script_name: port_scanner