RE: [cobalt-users] RE: Blocking Bad Win2k DNS Servers

[Ian MacDougall <ian.macdougall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Windows servers (any flavour) spend an awfully large amount of time sending
> broadcast traffic to their local broadcast network address saying "I'm a
> Windows server! I'm a Windows server! I'm a Windows server! And here's my
> machine name and NetBIOS domain!", which is (in a nutshell) how the Windows
> Network Neighborhood works.

That's so funny cos it's true.

We also see Win2K machines connected to cable modems or ADSL that try
and do zone transfers of our domain. This is because of the way DNS is
set up in Win2K. I've got one person from bellsouth.net that drives me
crazy. I used to block him on the firewall, now I just ignore the XFER
requests using logcheck. It annoys me that his stupid machine is filling
up my logs.

-- 
Ian MacDougall



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