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

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

I'll bet the machine you are running the lan browser from is directly
attached to the DSL line. So the non-LAN machines you are seeing are
"leaks" from the DSL router. They probably are a neighbors machine and
they have a similar IP address. Do a traceroute to each. If they are 2
hops out , i.e., you to router, router to box, your DSL provider has a
misconfigured router from a security standpoint. nmap might be a fun
test next. Then Linpopup :)

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 08:58, 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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