> What the GB message is saying is Workstation is talking out port 137 > to the GB. The GB takes that request, processes it through NAT and it > comes OUT of the GB's external interface as 10629 (in this case). The > message is directed TO the DNS server port 53. The port this request > comes out of on the workstation or the GB system is picked pretty much > at random (something available, unused by anything else at the > moment. It sounds like your workstation has settled on a particular > port to talk out of -- the fact that this is the NetBIOS port is > coincidence (more or less). This port number changes as it goes
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.
