Wonder if any (or all, I guess) of you are getting similar alerts??
Oh, by the way: important bit of information maybe: I do use Samba to communicate with my IBM notebook XP2/SP2. The PC, however, is not running, and I am not even connected to the LAN.Immediately aftern installing Little Snitch, I began noticing (and denying) attempts from nmdb, which is supposed to enable Samba as I understand it, to contact various unknown and unappetizing external IP addresses through various UDP ports.
This happens several times an hour, and not once has the request seemed reasonable. Further, denying it has had no repurcussions, which tends to confirm my suspicions.
Here is an example:
The application "nmbd" wants to connect to p5013-ipadfx01fukuokachu.fukuoka.ocn.ne.jp on UDP port 61987
Doesn't that look pretty nasty?
The amount of contact I want to have with fukuokachu is probably pretty slight? Also with "blackjack" (another recent one I recall)?
Advice? Seems as if this is either standard stuff that looks bad but isn't, or it's what I think it could be: trouble for me and for the whole platform.
This doesn’t look too good, does it?
Thanks.
Best,
- Bill
