> This is the response from Technical Support at readyhosting.com when

>  Customer Ticket Detail for Ticket 14545
>  Current Status  Completed
>  DomainName      x...@yyyy.net
>  Time in Queue   1119 Min. Elapsed

>                  I believe you host these sites.
>                  Yesterday, reported by Zone Alarm:
>                  The firewall has blocked Internet
>                  access to your computer (NetBIOS
>                  Name) from
>                  www.sandbrooksoftware.com
>                  (63.119.175.18) (NetBIOS Name).
>  Other Data      Time: 11/29/2001 15:46:06 (PST)
>                  Today: The firewall has blocked
>                  Internet access to your computer
>                  (NetBIOS Name) from
>                  www.delphicollection.com
>                  (63.99.209.23) (NetBIOS Name).
>                  Time: 11/30/2001 16:43:30 (PST)

>                  Why are you netbios-name scanning?

>  Completed By    Mike Herbrechtsmeier

>                  You will have to check your
>  Actions Taken   firewall settings. I am able to
>  To Complete     access your domains from our
>                  servers. Thank you

> Al Kirk <ak...@pacific.net> schreef in berichtnieuws
> 3C093578.C9441...@pacific.net...
> > This may not be appropriate, but FYI:

> > This is the response from Technical Support at readyhosting.com when
> informed that their hosting software was performing Netbios
> > Name scanning.

> >  Customer Ticket Detail for Ticket 14545
> >  Current Status  Completed
> >  DomainName      x...@yyyy.net
> >  Time in Queue   1119 Min. Elapsed

> >                  I believe you host these sites.
> >                  Yesterday, reported by Zone Alarm:
> >                  The firewall has blocked Internet
> >                  access to your computer (NetBIOS
> >                  Name) from
> >                  www.sandbrooksoftware.com
> >                  (63.119.175.18) (NetBIOS Name).
> >  Other Data      Time: 11/29/2001 15:46:06 (PST)
> >                  Today: The firewall has blocked
> >                  Internet access to your computer
> >                  (NetBIOS Name) from
> >                  www.delphicollection.com
> >                  (63.99.209.23) (NetBIOS Name).
> >                  Time: 11/30/2001 16:43:30 (PST)

> >                  Why are you netbios-name scanning?

> >  Completed By    Mike Herbrechtsmeier

> >                  You will have to check your
> >  Actions Taken   firewall settings. I am able to
> >  To Complete     access your domains from our
> >                  servers. Thank you

> I cannot comment on readyhosting.com, but if you are on a dialup-line, then
> there is another possible - and mostly harmless- cause for these ZoneAlarm
> alerts. When you dial in, you get a temporary IP-adress from your ISP's
> IP-block. Especially on peak hours,  this will be the IP-address from
> another user that has hung up just before you dialed in. Depending on what
> this user was doing on the internet, and his network settings, _you_ will
> now receive all the garbage of closing socket connections etc...
> Most ZoneAlarm alerts fall in this category.
> A true port scan otoh, will trigger ZA many times in succession, with
> incrementing port numbers. ( they mostly stop immediately if you ping back a
> few times <g>  )

> --
> Regards,

> Dirk Claessens
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