Re: What does this mean?

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2004-04-26 David Gillett wrote:
> From: Adnan Ali [mailto:call_ret () yahoo com]
> > Active Connections:
> > Proto  Local Addr    Foreign Addr     State 
> > ============================================
> >
> > TCP    0.0.0.0:135   0.0.0.0:0        LISTENING
>     NetBIOS 
[...]
> > UDP    0.0.0.0:135            *:*                    
>     NetBIOS

Port 135 isn't NetBIOS (which would be ports 137-139), but epmap (DCE
endpoint mapper, IOW the RPC portmapper). You could completely disable
NetBIOS and still have port 135 open.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers

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