> 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.


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