From: "C. Jon Larsen" <jlarsen@ford.ajtech.com>

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

Windows boxes will attempt name resolution using whatever protocols are configured...TCP/IP, Netbios, Netbios/TCP, Netbios/IPX, etc. Our name servers and some other public boxes are hit all the time because of this. (A campus WINS server would really cut down on this but we haven't got around to it yet.) I've seen a *LOT* of LAND attacks using these ports too. (i.e. 134.126.1.2 port 137 -> 134.126.1.2 port 137) Is the source address and port the same as the destination? I also seem to recall that using a Web browser (IE only?) on a Windows client with TCP and Netbios configured will hit these ports but I don't remember the details. If the Win95 boxes are browsing exterior NT based Web servers, those servers may be attempting name lookups for the Win95 boxes to the authoritative name servers. Or someone may just be scanning the network looking for someone with their C:, N:, etc. drives published to the world with no passwords :) Gary Flynn Network Analyst James Madison University