AW: [Samba] Samba tries to contact external IP ?

Uli Luckas Uli.Luckas at abakusag.de
Tue Aug 6 03:40:02 GMT 2002


Hi Andreas,
what kind of packet is logged, TCP or UDP? Does it have the SYN bit set? If
not, or if it is a SYN,ACK packet someone contacted your server through the
firewall and your server tries to proceed with the handshake procedure.

Uli

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Andreas Moroder [mailto:andreas.moroder at sb-brixen.it]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. August 2002 09:21
> An: samba at lists.samba.org
> Betreff: [Samba] Samba tries to contact external IP ?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> our firewall warns me that our server where samba  2.2.3 pre  
> runs, tries at
> random intervals to contact a machine at 209.67.79.132. 
> Because the ports are
> 445 and 139 I think it must be smbd or nmbd that sends this packets.
> 
> In smb.conf I find no entry with this address.
> 
> Can anyone explain me why ( and if ) samba does this ?
> 
> Thank you very much
> 
> Andreas Moroder
> 
> P.S. If possible please answer also direct via e-mail
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Dr. Andreas Moroder
> Sanitätsbetrieb Brixen - Azienda Sanitaria di Bressanone
>    www.sb-brixen.it    -      www.as-bressanone.it
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