Netbios traffic to non existent broadcast address

Hi there,

I’m looking for some help figuring out a problem where computers on the 10.10.1.x - 10.10.2.x subnets are sending about a million netbios name requests per day to 10.10.3.255. We do not have a 10.10.3.x subnet on our network. Our firewall blocks these packets and logs it. I cannot figure out why they would be sent to 10.10.3.255.

Some of the hosts it is sending a name request for no longer exist on our network though a few do exist. Below is an example of the captured packets.

Any ideas on what is causing this? It is a lot of traffic, the firewall shows about 980k blocked items each day, most are these netbios requests. The firewall is Barracuda x300 if that helps, we have a Windows AD domain.

Thanks in advance,

Dana

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