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Re: UDP port 137 Question
- From: Bryce Ryan
- Date: Tue Jan 06 14:44:04 1998
My mailer says that Melody Yoon said:
>
> Hi Jon. If memory serves, Netbios nameservices are generally only on the
> same segment unless you have an NT/Samba server somewhere... As it is, it
> should *NOT* be directed at your Unix boxes and definately not coming
> across the Internet. My guess is that someone may be attempting a bad OOB
> data attack on port 137 thinking that your Unix box is some type of PC.
>
who was it that said, "never attribute to malice what can be explained by
stupidity?"
we run a web farm and see requests directed at port 137 all the time on
the web sites we host. i don't know for certain, but i assume it is
some sort of internet explorer "feature" that is attempting to establish
a CIFS connection to the web site. we ignore them anyway.
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=== bryce ryan ============ organic ======== brycer@organic.com =========
==== director =========== information ===== http://www.organic.com/ ======
== /etc/networks ========== services === v:415.278.5652#f:415.284.6891 ===
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