# Knots not using port 8333
**URL:** https://community.start9.com/t/knots-not-using-port-8333/5464
**Category:** Services Support
**Tags:** services
**Created:** [July 29, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/knots-not-using-port-8333/5464 "2026-07-29T13:36:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@BeansOnToast](https://community.start9.com/u/BeansOnToast)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/knots-not-using-port-8333/5464/1 "2026-07-29T13:36:26Z")
Hi. I have Knots running on StartOS v0.4 and I see it is using a non-standard port under Interfaces, Wired Connection 1, Local & Public. Is there a way to change the port to the standard 8333?
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### Author:  [@Rexter](https://community.start9.com/u/Rexter)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/knots-not-using-port-8333/5464/2 "2026-07-29T22:54:44Z")
Are you looking at the Peer Interface?
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### Author:  [@BeansOnToast](https://community.start9.com/u/BeansOnToast)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 9:52am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/knots-not-using-port-8333/5464/3 "2026-07-30T09:52:46Z")
> [@BeansOnToast](#):
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> Interfaces, Wired Connection 1, Local & Public
Sorry, yes I missed that in my original post… Interfaces, Peer, Wired Connection 1, Local & Public
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### Author:  [@BeansOnToast](https://community.start9.com/u/BeansOnToast)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 10:07am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/knots-not-using-port-8333/5464/4 "2026-07-30T10:07:44Z")
I’ve tried SSH’ing in and accessing the container with…
> start-cli package attach bitcoind
… but I can’t find the bitcoin.conf file to add/edit the line “port=8333”.
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### Author:  [@remcoros](https://community.start9.com/u/remcoros)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/knots-not-using-port-8333/5464/5 "2026-07-30T15:33:47Z")
you should not manually edit bitcoin.conf, especially not anything network related, this is all managed by StartOS.
It does not have to be 8333, the ports are automatically assigned by the bitcoin package and startos, you should not have to change it, just follow the instructions in the documentation and UI if you want to open/forward a port.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.start9.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/knots-not-using-port-8333/5464/6 "2026-08-01T15:33:48Z")
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