Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: netbios question

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

the client is doing a broadcast WINS request to try to resolve the
name into an ip address.

Maybe your host failed to look this name up in DNS so it is using
NBNS(==WINS) as a fallback mode. It is unlikely to succeed though
since while NETBIOS names may contain '.'   DNS hostnames are not.





On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:39:49 -0600, Matthew Hinton
<mhinton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know what webshots is. Has anyone else seen this or understand why it
> would do this?  I've included the summary part of the packet.
> 
> No.     Time                       Source                Destination
>     Protocol Info
>   12486 2005-03-31 10:30:30.962592 172.50.205.37         172.50.207.255
>     NBNS     Name query NB WEBSHOTS.COM<00>
> 
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