Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 22:17:08 From: Kurt Keller <Kurt@pinboard.com> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port 137 (was: Re: private network on router's external NIC?) Message-ID: <3.0.5.16.19980818221708.1a172ab4@pop.pbdhome.pinboard.com> In-Reply-To: <19980818105321.58178@i-pi.com> References: <xzp3eauu3bd.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <35D8A7E8.2DC50695@partitur.se> <xzp3eauu3bd.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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>Except that Newbios-NS (137) port lookups come from machines with >WINS turned on doing web browsing. I tracked this down after I To me it seems web servers send out packets to port 137 as well. Not using WINS internally and browsing through a double proxy connection, we filter out lots of _incoming_ packets to port 137. From one site there are also such packets at night, when nobody is surfing. Contacting their administrator I was told that at night they process access and routing statistics on a WIN box. Oh, how much bandwith we'd save without those MS-boxes...<g> Kurt -- Kurt@pinboard.com http://www.pinboard.com/ business http://www.pinboard.com/kurt/ private To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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