You've been to GRC.com again, haven't you? :-P Both HTTP and FTP use the TCP protocol to get where they're going. It's a basic precept of TCP communications that you can't respond to a connection request if you don't accept them. ------------------------------------------------------- Jim Harrison MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/ http://isatools.org Read the help / books / articles! ------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Tom Rogers [mailto:trogers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 08:59 To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] Open Ports Ports 80 and 21 are open statically on my ISA 2000 SP-2 server. I publish websites through ISA and a single FTP site. How do I make these ports open dynamically - only when proper access is needed? TIA, -Tom Rogers ISA Rookie All mail to and from this domain is GFI-scanned.