Re: [ILUG] Frequent connections on port 137

From: Thomas Ribbrock (emgaron at domain gmx.net)
Date: Sat 18 Sep 1999 - 14:40:28 IST


On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 02:08:49PM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> I've heard that IIS often does netbios lookups on the connecting machine. It
> probably does some funny, proprietary type of authentication if the client
> is running Windows.

Judging from the cookies I get (ASPSESSION=...), at least Board Failte is
running IIS.

> If you want to see what's in the packets, use tcpdump:
>
> # tcpdump -i ppp0 port 137 -s 1000

Bingo!

[root at domain angua /root]# /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i ppp0 port 137 -s 1000
tcpdump: listening on ppp0
14:36:15.830895 bf-web.bord-failte.iol.ie.netbios-ns > ts01-176.limerick.indigo.ie.netbios-ns: udp 50
14:36:16.720879 bf-web.bord-failte.iol.ie.netbios-ns > ts01-176.limerick.indigo.ie.netbios-ns: udp 50
14:36:18.210854 bf-web.bord-failte.iol.ie.netbios-ns > ts01-176.limerick.indigo.ie.netbios-ns: udp 50

Looks, like I'll have to write those folks to set up their web server
properly...

Next step: I'll try to find out whether all the other hosts I got these
connections from could be something similar.

Thanks!

Thomas

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