I have a Forms server set up outside a network, on a DMZ. This is strictly locked down. According to the Support article titled "Ports," port 135 isn't listed as being needed for any application. However, Wireshark shows this to be untrue. Port 135 is consistently used when I am trying to "save" a Forms configuration on this server in the DMZ.

Other ports in use, which my Firewall is not blocking, appear to be 443, 5048, and 5050. I do have a self-signed SSL certificate that was created on the destination server, and has been placed in the Trusted Root Authority section of certmgr on the DMZ server.

I am looking for clarification on what port 135 is being used for in this instance, and whether I need to open that port, or if my failure to connect to the repository internally from "formsconfig" is perhaps due to some other reason.

Could port 135 be the port it is using to try and "validate" the self-signed SSL certificate that came from the destination server?