On Thu, 18 May 2000, Bruce wrote:
> As I have referred to in other messages, we have this person/people
> hammering our site on port 137 - every day and every IP address.
>
Those people are in Redmond Washington and this is the way that they
designed their software.
> Now the nmbd netbios name server is currently not in use and I have been
> thinking about enabling it with some very false information primarily to
> scramble this idiots brain.
>
> Is this ethical and are there any suggestions?
In this instance, it's probably not a question of ethics -- do what the
rest of us do and have a rule such as:
ipchains -A input -i <external interface> -p UDP --dport
netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -j DENY
In other words, get over it....
-Tom
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