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To: patl@phoenix.volant.org
Subject: Re: Cause of NetBIOS-NS requests from outside 
Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:05:43 PST."
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:42:52 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <ML-3.3.909633943.1367.patl@asimov> patl@phoenix.volant.org writes:
: If it's doing a broadcast, why is the destination address the IP
: address of my server instead of one of the broadcast addresses
: for my network?  Or is this Micro$oft's definition of 'broadcast'?

Likely a badly configured client :-(.  We get lots of traffic to
204.144.255.255 from various people because of this MS misfeature.

Warner

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