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

[Oliver Hensel <oliver.hensel () telematis de>]

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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