Ports 135-139 (and I think 445) are Netbios ports. Port 113 is auth/identd.
IMHO, it makes sense to not let these in through your
firewall.
-Anne
jjj3 grabbed a keyboard and typed...
>
> Ok, but if the port is 137.... is that a problem?
>
> jjj3
>
> Andy Coates writes:
>
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Logs in my firewall shows me incoming connections to port 113 of the
> > > firewall!! What it means?
> >
> > Some service you or your computer is connecting to is checking your
> > ident. Disable the identd daemon or comment out the entry in inetd.conf
> > if you do it that way.
> >
> > Usually happens when you IRC, or some FTP sites check. Don't recall a
> > vulnerability for it.
> >
> > Andy.
> >
>
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