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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: UDP port 137 Question
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. -- === bryce ryan ============ organic ======== [email protected] ========= ==== director =========== information ===== http://www.organic.com/ ====== == /etc/networks ========== services === v:415.278.5652#f:415.284.6891 ===
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