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Re: microsoft

  • From: Ian A Finlay
  • Date: Fri Dec 28 13:43:17 2001

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Christopher Schulte wrote:
> Looks to me as if Microsoft is altering global delegation of their
> windowsupdate service.  Maybe diversifying the dns structure as they did
> with microsoft.com after the attacks a while back?  They now have 12 DNS
> servers scattered around the globe, just to serve microsoft.com dns.

Yeah, maybe they're moving they're update service from windowsupdate.microsoft.com to
windowsupdate.com. Maybe they'll "Akamize" windowsupdate.com too...

bash-2.04$ host www.microsoft.com
www.microsoft.com is a nickname for www.microsoft.akadns.net
www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.230.218
www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.230.219
www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.230.220
www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.197.100
www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.197.101
www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.197.113
www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.197.102

bash-2.04$ host windowsupdate.microsoft.com
windowsupdate.microsoft.com has address 207.46.106.88

bash-2.04$ host windowsupdate.com
windowsupdate.com has address 207.46.106.88
windowsupdate.com has address 207.46.226.17
windowsupdate.com has address 207.68.131.27

-Ian






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