[lug] internet ports

Tony Dyson the_anorak at worldnet.att.net
Sun Feb 17 11:22:35 MST 2002


I believe I recently read that this may be a "new" port (in addition to
/ instead of 137>>139) used by Windows 2000 for some variant of NETBIOS
activity.
 
"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> Jeff wrote:
> >
> > Hi all:
> > I just had 3 hits on my machine at home for port 445.  According to
> > /etc/services, this is:
> > microsoft-ds    445/tcp    Microsoft-DS
> >
> > I've never heard of this before.  What is Microsoft-DS?  Thanks in
> > advance
> 
> I would guess it is domain service for MS-specific networking. Sounds
> like someone is either looking for MS vulnerabilities or simply has
> their system misconfigured.



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