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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:55:15 -0500
From:      Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>
To:        Lawrence Sica <larry@mail.interactivate.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Port 137 hitting my server
Message-ID:  <19991108215515.A22452@palomine.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.19991108155541.00bcba40@mail.interactivate.com>; from Lawrence Sica on Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 03:57:01PM -0800
References:  <4.2.2.19991108155541.00bcba40@mail.interactivate.com>

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On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 03:57:01PM -0800, Lawrence Sica wrote:
> All,
> 
> I keep getting hits to port 137 on my server.  I know this is a netbios
> thing, and am not running samba.  The server in question is a webserver.  I
> was wondering any legitimate cause for this?

I get zillions of these. I think that it's something that Windows does on its
own, unbeknownst to the person at the controls. I don't think that anyone is
intentioanlly probing anything.

Chris


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