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port 137 (Netbios-ns) request
Name: Jonathan Date: November 21, 2002 at 07:21:50 Pacific OS: NT CPU/Ram: 65.236
Comment:
I've got port 137 requests from one of my server to the exterior world...is this normal?
Name: ralf Krueger Date: November 21, 2002 at 08:25:59 Pacific
Reply:
that's windows !!! Definitly e. g. with nt4.0 every name-request that cannot be resolved causes windows to try to resolve the name over netbios ns with port 137. Don't worry it only runs to next hub then packets are disgarded.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sue Date: November 21, 2002 at 12:17:26 Pacific
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