On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Alec Skelly wrote: > I could be way off here, but I think only ports >1024 are chosen at random. > For Windows to use 137 for DNS traffic seems just plain weird. I think I > would run a sniffer to see exactly what's going on.
This is Windows using DNS to resolve NetBIOS names. It does that when you have File Sharing enabled. I always see those packets flying around my network. If you capture those packets with tcpdump, or someother packet analyzer, you can see the DNS requests. -- Jason K. Fritcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d-(+) s+:++ a-- C++@ UB++++S+++$ P++(-) L- !E W+(--) N++(+) o? K- w--() O M- !V PS(+) PE Y+ PGP(++) t+@ 5 X+ R>+ tv+(--) b+>++ DI D++ G e h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
