If you can determine what ports your various firewalls consider "dangerous", 
you can reserve them in your TCPIP parms. Then they aren't used via FTP (or 
others) when suggesting a temporary highport

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On
> Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2021 4:29 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Looking for help understanding an FTP problem
> 
> On Thu, 6 May 2021 08:54:18 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
> 
> >Yup! The answer from Dallas is
> >
> ><URL:https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/'HTT
> PD2.DSN01.PUBLIC.SHTML(BLKPORTS)'__;!!JmPEgBY0HMszNaDT!4ekem9Fq
> yzBPZw0WTbnQu3Gut3-I1Fc3nBRIRS-DnE7SpL3AhYEsth7iQe8MoQ$ > [RFC
> 1738; gil]
> >
> >I think that is a public document. If it's not, well, sorry.
> >
> >I guess I will add all of these to the PORT list.
> >
> I find various documentation (Linux-centric?) that if your client
> requests port 0, the service returns an unused port, no TOCTTOU.
> 
> Of course, your problem is not that they are in use, but that they
> are blocked by the firewall.  But it would be a courtesy if the
> service were to treat them as if they were in use.
> 
> RFE?
> 
> -- gil
> 
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