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Date:      Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:42:41 -0700
From:      Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>
To:        ryanm <ryanm@accn.org>, "FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.ORG" <FreeBSD-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: netbios-ns requests
Message-ID:  <19981105134241.A3887@i-pi.com>
In-Reply-To: <36420344.FAEEF45E@accn.org>; from ryanm on Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 02:57:56PM -0500
References:  <36420344.FAEEF45E@accn.org>

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On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 02:57:56PM -0500, ryanm wrote:
> Hello Freebsd Guru's,
> 
> In my day to day matters I have noticed several port 137 packets getting
> nixed by
> my firewall.

This just got discussed. Take a look in the archives, for example
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=93002+95200+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-security/19980816.freebsd-security

It boils down to if WINS is turned on on a PC that is going to one of
your machines, it tries to do a WINS lookup.

Kenneth

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