From: "Peter Shkabara" :Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 6:34 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] IP address to name translation


> I used to know, but I forgot. How do I find out who a specific IP belongs
> to? At least, what is the domain name for the IP? I found the Tiny Personal
> Firewall mentioned on this list and started using it. Now I wonder what the
> IP addresses that are probing are. In particular, the SYSTEM is being
> reported as wanting to connect to 172.16.162.n at ports 137, 138, and 139. I
> suspect it is Microsoft's update facility, but would like to confirm that.
> Incidentally, I tried using ZoneAlarm for a while but had to remove it from
> my Windows 2000 system because of too many problems. Tiny Personal Firewall
> does not give me any trouble.
> 
> Peter Shkabara, P.E.
> ____________________________


Peter,

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