Greetings!
"Noonan, Wesley" wrote:
> You just told him to open port 135 and 137...
> 135 is:
Microsoft RPCs - not a good idea to let into your (then no longer) protected
network.
> Whatever that is... though I suspect it has something to do with maybe Frame
> Relay or X.25... dunno for sure, and I don't have a lot of time to look it
> up.
One important rule: never ever allow what you (or the requestor) cannot tell
for 100% to be kosher.
> 137 is:
> netbios-ns 137/tcp NETBIOS Name Service
> netbios-ns 137/udp NETBIOS Name Service
> More commonly known as WINS. This is generally regarded as a bad thing to
> open to the world... now that IS likely to get one hung...
registered correctly, but as you said yourself: WINS != DNS
Bye
Volker
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