Weird WINS thing

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Trent Collicutt

I've found some traffic, that I'm told is just a normal Win2K thing,
but noone can tell me what it is for.

I was looking at traffic from a remote location, using a sniffer. I
noticed that one of our servers at a central site was scanning the
subnet. It was sending out a NBTSTAT -A for each IP in the range.

The people who set up the server are gone, and noone seems to know who
is currently responsible for mainaining it, so I can't really ask what
was set up.

What "normal" activity of Win2K would scan all the machines on a
different subnet. It is not a domain controller, and it is not a file
server. It is a standalone server for storing log files.

Any ideas?
 
Nope. Norton's running and hasn't reported anything. Or so I am
told. it is just being put down as normal Windows behaviour, which
will continue until we hire someone to do some serious OS hardening.

I'm from a Novell background. I don't have enough practical
experience with 2000 server to know why it might "normally" do
something like this.
 
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