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to: Mike N.
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2003-07-10 17:19:44
subject: Re: I.E. 6.0 download?

From: Mike '/m' 

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:55:05 -0400, Mike N.  wrote:

>On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 20:00:42 -0400, Mike '/m'  wrote:
>
>>But any reverse lookup for my IP address should go to my ISP's DNS, as
>>that is the zone that owns the in-addr name for the address.
>
>   I believe that Windows tries to directly contact the host for a Netbios
name if DNS
>fails.  I've seen this in other situations.   I don't know if there's a way to
turn off
>the Netbios portion of name resolution.


It's trying to come in om UDP port 53, so it's not NetBIOS.  The way I turn
it off is to block incoming port 53 requests.  :-)

 /m

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