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Kudos to whoever set up this box, by the way. I ran nmap against it a few different ways and the correct port number was not listed.

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The reason (as pointed out by zeraholladay) is that nmap scans per default only about ~1000 ports. If the service is running on a non standard port it will not show up in the default scan

I ran it with the widest port range possible.

Sorry, my bad. Deleted the post.

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