@Arthur, good point. Thank you. I will keep that sort of issue in mind. I have opened an issue with IBM Dallas. I will see what they say, and may suggest looking into those reserved ports.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 1:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Looking for help understanding an FTP problem On 5 May 2021 11:13:21 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:<[email protected]>) [email protected] (Charles Mills) wrote: >My FTP client succeeds when the port is 1025, 1026, 1027, ... etc. until it >gets to port 2240, when the dialog looks like > >EZA1736I GET 'dsname' >EZA1701I >>> PORT 204,90,***,***,8,192 > >200 Port request OK. > >EZA1701I >>> RETR 'dsname' >EZA2589E Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Waiting for reply > >EZA1721W Server not responding, closing connection. > >EZA1735I Std Return Code = 16200, Error Code = 00009 > >It also fails for ports 2710 and 3391, but no other ports between 1025 and >3392. 2240 is a "registered port" for "General Dynamics Remote Encryptor Configuration Information Protocol (RECIPe)". 2710 ditto for "XBT Tracker. UDP tracker extension is considered experimental." Could this be an issue? (Of course, many of the ports that *are* working for you are on that list, too.) Source: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
