Hi. Homer Simpson wrote: > > Hi. > > That network is, ideed, reserved address space. You will find that > Microsoft machines that are booting up and looking for their DHCP server > (but unable to find it) will be given an IP address on this network. This > behaviour is exhibited in Win98, but not in Win95 or NT (and I doubt it > happens in Win2K). --- snip stuff about perceived NetBIOS scan --- Yes W2K does this also. It's documented behavior and shouldn't interfere with anything on the Internet, if only the ISPs would do their egress filtering, sigh. Greetings olli -- Oliver Hensel telematis Netzwerke GmbH mailto: oliver.henselat_private Siemensstrasse 23, D-76275 Ettlingen Tel: +49 (0) 7243/5050-557, Fax: 5050-592 visit us: http://telematis.com This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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