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.

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 Jason K. Fritcher
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