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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Crazy flying netbios packets
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Pete Ashdown wrote: > Has anyone done any estimates on how much net-wide traffic is useless > netbios udp? Are there any suggestions for cutting large chunks of this > out of my network without punishing SAMBA and other users who need it? On the subject of Windows generated useless traffic, I have been woking with RIPE to look at how many queries to k.root-servers.net are for dud TLDs - the majority of which are caused by Windows using the DNS to look up the local NT domain name - requests of the form "FOO." The results are somewhat scary - it seems that around 20% of all queries are generated by this behaviour. I can't give you any more info at present, as we are still working on the data - it is literally something I am in the middle of doing at the moment, but wanted to give a quick heads up to folks in the light of this thread. Paul -- Paul Thornton Office Tel: +44 1733 705000 London Internet Exchange www.linx.net Mobile: +44 467 372205
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