On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:10:26 +0000, Benik, John E 

>If you have an example or if you go into option 6 what do you get?
>  Here's what I got,
>
>ftp.software.ibm.con
>
Is that the entire command you entered at option 6?
                                                                
> EZA1554I Connecting to: ftp-www3-software.southdata.ibm.com 170.225.126.17 
> port      
>          : 21.                                                                
>        
> EZA2590E connect error from initIPv4Connection - EDC8127I Connection timed 
> out.      
>           (errno2=0x00000000)                                                 
>        
>
>Seems like either we are blocking port 21 or IBM has it blocked.
> 
It appears not to be IBM.  With curl on my desktop I see a log:
220 ProFTPD Server (proftpd) [9.214.168.52]
331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your password
230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply
257 "/" is the current directory
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||34173|)
200 Type set to A
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
226 Transfer complete

The file list has 21 lines, some as recent as 2021.
curl ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com | wc
      51     463    3253
-- 
gil

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