UDP port 137 Question

Tue Jan 6 18:35:07 UTC 1998

Well, at least you're not alone:

    deny   udp any any eq netbios-ns (5479183 matches)
    deny   udp any any eq netbios-dgm (20345 matches)
    deny   udp any any eq 139 (414 matches)

    deny   tcp any any eq 139 (20446 matches)

No Windoze on this side...  How much garbage traffic is generated by MS
products anyhow?

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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, C. Jon Larsen wrote:

> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 12:54:52 -0500 (EST)
> From: "C. Jon Larsen" <jlarsen at ford.ajtech.com>
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: UDP port 137 Question
> 
> 
> Is there any *valid* reason to see UDP traffic directed at a unix box's
> port 137 coming from IP sources across the internet ? The unix servers in
> question are most definitely *not* running samba, and there is absolutely
> no NT anywhere on this customer's network (that is seeing the incoming UDP
> traffic directed at an IP destination address on port 137). (A couple
> of 95 boxes scattered across an Ethernet comprise the Micro$oft part of
> the network). None of the 95 boxen are running any file or print serving
> (sharing) resources.
> 
> I can't think of any valid reason to see this traffic, personally. Anybody
> out there that can present a scenario where I would expect to see these
> UDP packets coming back in ?
> 
> netbios-ns      137/tcp         nbns
> netbios-ns      137/udp         nbns
> netbios-dgm     138/tcp         nbdgm
> netbios-dgm     138/udp         nbdgm
> netbios-ssn     139/tcp         nbssn
> 
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