Re: netbios scanning coming from IANA's internal class B...?

From: Oliver Hensel (oliver.henselat_private)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 12:45:01 PDT

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    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
    
    
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