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Date:      Mon, 08 Nov 1999 21:07:33 -0700
From:      Mike Uttech <Mike@Zipoff.com>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net>, Lawrence Sica <larry@mail.interactivate.com>
Subject:   Re: Port 137 hitting my server
Message-ID:  <19991109031211.EF813152E9@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991108215515.A22452@palomine.net>
References:  <4.2.2.19991108155541.00bcba40@mail.interactivate.com> <4.2.2.19991108155541.00bcba40@mail.interactivate.com>

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This is caused by Internet Explorer 5.  I remember running into this
annoying situation and after blocking it at the routers I figured out that
it was IE 5 doing it.  I used to know why it was probing to see if NETBIOS
was running, but at the moment, I cannot remember it.

Hope this helps,



At 07:55 PM 11/8/99 , Chris Johnson wrote:
>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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