[ale] Lan Browser in Konqueror showing machine names not on LAN

[Geoffrey]

I wonder if this is a side effect of IFITL?  Are you dynamic?  If they 
come and go, I'd expect that it's an indicator that folks are coming and 
going on the network.  Pretty bizarre.  If I was in your position, I'd 
probably nmap these guys, but then, I don't know that bellsouth would be 
too pleased.

Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> I'm running DSL (IFITL). Also since writing the first e-mail message the
> host103 has been replaced with host104. I would think it would just
> about have to be coming from outside. If it were just the router it
> wouldn't have multiple names would it? I know that before I assigned my
> machine a host name it would get its name from the router which would be
> something similar to the ones below with maybe one less null if I
> remember correctly. It would get exactly the same name every time
> though, it wouldn't change. It is odd that it seems to be incrementing.
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Neal
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 08:46, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>I saw something like this yesterday when helping someone else.  I 
>>thought that the null.null... entry was likely her router.  I'm 
>>wondering now if you're not seeing something outside of your house?  Of 
>>course this would be a huge security error on Bellsouth's effort.
>>
>>I understand that this is common on cable networks. ???
>>
>>Neal Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>>>I've noticed three machines listed in the LAN Browser in Konqueror that
>>>were not there yesterday. There really shouldn't be anything there. I
>>>have another Linux machine in my home but I haven't yet set them up to
>>>talk to each other as of yet. I have a shared printer on the other
>>>machine using cups. The machine names listed are something you might see
>>>if you didn't have a machine name specified and they were getting their
>>>names from the router. Both machines have specified host names. The
>>>names listed in the LAN Browser are "host100-null.null.bellsouth.net"
>>>there is also a host103 and host1. What could be generating this? I do
>>>have Lisa running on both machines if this helps. Thanks for your
>>>assistance and I apologize it is something simple and I have missed it.
>>>I have looked for an answer. 
>>>
>>>Neal
>>>
>>>
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