[14553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UDP port 137 Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick H. Wesson)
Tue Jan 6 17:29:30 1998
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:00:54 -0800 (PST)
From: "Rick H. Wesson" <wessorh@ar.com>
To: Melody Yoon <melodyy@best.com>
cc: Bryce Ryan <brycer@organic.com>, jlarsen@ford.ajtech.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980106121149.2618Z-100000@shell4.ba.best.com>
Brice,
IANA sez:
netbios-ns 137/tcp NETBIOS Name Service
netbios-ns 137/udp NETBIOS Name Service
-rick
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Melody Yoon wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Bryce Ryan wrote:
> [cut]
> > who was it that said, "never attribute to malice what can be explained by
> > stupidity?"
>
> no clue, but I like the quote. :)
>
> > we run a web farm and see requests directed at port 137 all the time on
> > the web sites we host. i don't know for certain, but i assume it is
> > some sort of internet explorer "feature" that is attempting to establish
> > a CIFS connection to the web site. we ignore them anyway.
>
