From owner-freebsd-security Fri Oct 30 05:28:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA05686 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 05:28:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ujf.ujf-grenoble.fr (ujf.ujf-grenoble.fr [193.54.232.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA05681 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 05:28:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Gilles.Bruno@ujf-grenoble.fr) Received: from antigua (adm-bruno.ujf-grenoble.fr [193.54.232.177]) by ujf.ujf-grenoble.fr (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA11284 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:28:09 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.1.19981030141631.0180cd10@adm.ujf-grenoble.fr> X-Sender: bruno@adm.ujf-grenoble.fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:27:22 +0100 To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Gilles Bruno Subject: Re: Cause of NetBIOS-NS requests from outside In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi everyone, this M$ product illness has been discussed on the samba-technical list a few days ago : some have discovered that in some circumstances M$'made "gethostbyname" syscall were first "netbios-mapped" and then "dns-mapped" (you can define the priority have these calls, but it also depends of your 'netbios-node-type' broadcast, wins, mixed...) I've given up this treat, but afaik, there was no means to prevent those brain-dead 'doze from acting so... I recall this problem was mentionned on the win95netbug site (http://www.euronet.nl/~gco_fvee/win95netbugs/faq.html) my 0.2$ -- Gilles BRUNO Universite Joseph Fourier - CRIP Domaine Universitaire 38041 St Martin d'Heres FRANCE Tel (33) 04 76 63 56 68 Fax (33) 04 76 51 42 74 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message