[ajphdiv]

I can't either, in fact all 10+ of the hosts that I routinely access have ports higher than OPs issue.

[andai]

Offtopic but why are people using high port numbers? Additional security due to a nonstandard port? If so, does that go together with anything additional like port knocking? Or is it multiple hosts on the same IP, but different ports?

[vbezhenar]

Some people think that it adds to security. Some people want to reduce noise in logs.

[cozzyd]

A relatively common use case is multiple devices behind a NAT, where each port goes to a different device.

[ajphdiv]

It's to keep my logs cleaner. It doesn't add any security value since the port is still open. I don't allow password auth. I was just always annoyed with how many times port 22 was getting hit everyday by attackers.