Date: 20 Aug 1998 16:36:50 +0000 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port 137 (was: Re: private network on router's external NIC?) Message-ID: <xzpogtf8va5.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Kenneth Ingham's message of "Tue, 18 Aug 1998 10:53:21 -0600" References: <35D8A7E8.2DC50695@partitur.se> <xzp3eauu3bd.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <19980818105321.58178@i-pi.com>
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Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> writes: > On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 10:00:54AM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > > Forged packets to the NetBIOS ports are with 99% certainty attempted > > DoS attacks (which will only succeed against Winblows boxen) > Except that Newbios-NS (137) port lookups come from machines with > WINS turned on doing web browsing. [...] > So, port 137 may not be a denial of service attack, could be just > mis-configured boxes. I said *forged*, didn't I? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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