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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:26:25 +0100
From:      Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cause of NetBIOS-NS requests from outside
Message-ID:  <19981030102625.B2255@matrix.42.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810291208130.5445-100000@under.suspicion.org>; from Thomas Stromberg on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:44:30PM %2B0100
References:  <ML-3.3.909615695.6966.patl@asimov> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810291208130.5445-100000@under.suspicion.org>

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On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:44:30PM +0100, Thomas Stromberg wrote:
> If you enable "Windows resolution through DNS" in NT (there is a similar
> setting in Windows95/98), every TCP access that machine ever makes sends a
> NetBIOS-ns (137) packet to try to find out its Windows equivalent name to
> store in its cache.

Has anybody tried to reply to this packets with an equivalent of
'FIX-YOUR-SETUP' as name ?

CU,
    Sec
-- 
Wunder von Microsoft I:
Ich habe mal eine Testmaschine nach einer Neuinstallation rebootet. Sie
blieb aber mit "No processors found" stehen. -- <Marcus@nero.rhein-main.de>

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