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Date:      Sun, 3 Sep 2000 13:24:08 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        John Hengstler <john@hei.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Unexpected traffic (was: signature?)
Message-ID:  <20000903132408.H66079@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <001101c01550$66bcf380$83a3ded1@hei.net>; from john@hei.net on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 07:41:02PM -0700
References:  <200009022014.UAA02138@groggy.anc.ptialaska.net> <20000903085224.I17337@wantadilla.lemis.com> <001101c01550$66bcf380$83a3ded1@hei.net>

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On Saturday,  2 September 2000 at 19:41:02 -0700, John Hengstler wrote:
> On  Saturday, September 02, 2000 4:22 PM, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>
>> [moved to -questions; this isn't an ISP issue]
>>
>> On Saturday,  2 September 2000 at 20:14:03 +0000, groggy@iname.com wrote:
>>> can anyone tell me what the heck my ISP is doing to my machine?
>>
>> It's the name of your system:
>>
>>> Received: (from abc@localhost)
>>>        by groggy.anc.ptialaska.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02138
>>>        for isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 20:14:03 GMT
>>>        (envelope-from groggy@iname.com)
>>
>>> is it a recognizable signature?  they repeat this every
>>> 1-2 minutes - and it does clog my connection a little!
>>> is it stuff i should allow - or is something strange
>>> going on?  udp 68 is the "bootstrap protocol client".
>>> i don't know what the heck that has to do with me,
>>
>> The messages seem to be coming from your end.  I don't even see any
>> replies.  The two messages at 05:13:25.548800 have nothing to do with
>> you, but suggest that you're on a broadcast medium.  Considering that
>> the names suggest this is ADSL, you might ask your ISP about that.
>>
>>> this is the full sequence ...
>>>
>>> 05:13:24.048994 209-193-28-245.adsl.jnu.acsalaska.net.netbios-ns > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68
>>> 05:13:24.049044 209-193-28-245.adsl.jnu.acsalaska.net.netbios-ns > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68
>>> 05:13:24.168796 groggy.netbios-ns > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68
>>> 05:13:24.168828 groggy.netbios-ns > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68
>>> 05:13:24.308786 groggy.51488 > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68
>>> 05:13:24.308822 groggy.51488 > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68
>>> 05:13:24.428758 groggy.46346 > 208.151.115.193.netbios-ns: udp 68
>>
>>> i don't use dhcp or anything like that ...
>>
>> Are you sure you're not running some other daemon which uses this
>> service?  Take a look with 'ps lax' and see what you get.
>
> Aren't these caused by samba or another program of the sort which are
> answered by an "MS" machine?  That is how it is on my network...

The messages here are originating from machine 'groggy'.  I'm assuming
from the context that it's a FreeBSD machine.

Greg
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