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many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService)
From: joerg.walter () members debis at (Joerg Walter)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:20:02 +0100
Hi folks, I discovered a strange thing on a Firewall (IPCHAINS-based, RedHat 6.0, Kernel 2.2.12-20). There are lots of connect-attempts to this machine to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService). These attempts are blocked but nethertheless I'm wondering, since the source of these packets are addresses throughout Europe and they doesn't seem to be broadcasts (destination address is exactly that machine). We have some other Firewalls set up just the same on the same network and they don't get these packets... Is this something to be worried about?
Current thread:
- many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService) Joerg Walter (Feb 16)
- Re: many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService) Bill Pennington (Feb 17)
- Re: many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService) Chuck O'Donnell (Feb 19)
- Re: many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService) Philip J. Koenig (Feb 23)
- Re: many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService) K. Graham (Feb 19)
- Re: many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService) Chuck O'Donnell (Feb 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService) Robert Graham (Feb 17)
- Re: Re: many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService) Joerg Walter (Feb 17)
- Re: many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService) K. Graham (Feb 19)
- Re: many attempts to Port 137 (NetBIOS-NameService) Bill Pennington (Feb 17)