[17319] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ingress filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Germann)
Fri May 29 08:50:06 1998
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 08:09:00 -0400
To: John Fraizer <John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net>
From: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
Cc: "Mr. Dana Hudes" <dhudes@graphnet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980528143246.006dc03c@pop3.enterzone.net>
At 02:32 PM 5/28/98 -0400, John Fraizer wrote:
<SNIP>
Rant trimmed for brevity
</SNIP>
>When a Winblows box does a DNS lookup, for some reason, it will also send a
>NETBIOS name service request thinking that there is a WINS resolver living
>at the same IP. It's just another example of MS doing very strange things.
>(Read: They don't know $h!t about IP and show it regularly!)
>
Actually it has nothing to do with WINS. If all the ISP's would implement
solid in-addr.arpa reverse mappings, this would go away. Microsoft's DNS
resolver has been extended, when DNS lookups fail, to do a reverse NETBIOS
query against the target machine so it can use its name when displaying
stuff via NBTSTAT, etc. It was designed this way, before the Internet
became popular.
Before we all rant at MS, I suggest we all read RFC's 1001 and 1002 and
UNDERSTAND NetBIOS over IP, before we blame ALL the worlds ills on MS.
Last I knew, they weren't written by MS.
RFC 1001-> http://answerpointe.cctec.com/notes/rfcs1/254e_1e2.htm
RFC 1002-> http://answerpointe.cctec.com/notes/rfcs1/2e46_1e2.htm
Author(s): Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, End-to-End Services
Task Force, Internet Activities Board, NetBIOS Working Group
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