What does this mean?

[Nick Sayer]

I am running samba 1.9.18.4 on a FreeBSD 2.2.5 machine.

I seem to get a lot of these sorts of things. I have a 'hosts allow'
clause in the smb.conf file designed to keep anyone except my network
(which is none of the ones below) from accessing the shares.

Is someone trying to hack me?

The addresses in question all look like dialups:

blv-lx102-ip38.nwnexus.net.
207-172-199-175.s48.as1.xwb.erols.com.
usr-tc-02-011.win.net.
ts003d47.gre-sc.concentric.net.

>From /var/log/log.nmb:

process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.63.41.38 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.63.41.38 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.63.41.38 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.63.41.38 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.63.41.38 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 207.172.199.175 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 207.172.199.175 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 207.172.199.175 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.155.221.92 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.155.221.92 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.155.221.92 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 24.235.4.11 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 24.235.4.11 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 24.235.4.11 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.83.73.155 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.83.73.155 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.83.73.155 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.83.73.155 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.83.73.155 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.83.73.155 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.83.73.155 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.83.73.155 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.
process_node_status_request: status request for name *<00> from IP 206.83.73.155 on subnet REMOTE_BROADCAST_SUBNET - name not found.