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Message-ID: <F6AFB904D02F7D4990B08243CA02756D14E5D5@mainserver.ecmsi.com>
From: Anthony_Turk at ecmsi.com (Turk, Anthony)
Subject: windowsupdate.com

Windows update has been slow as hell for me all day.

Sitting on a cable modem roughly twice as fast as a T1.  Average 600KB/s download times.

Windowsupdate is the only slow site I've been to all day.

Anthony J. Turk Jr.
IT Consultant
Executive Computer Management Solutions, Inc.
Phone: (330) 750-9409 ext. 3#
Fax: (330) 750-9410
E-Mail: Anthony_Turk@...si.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Simmons [mailto:andrews@...-cds.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:30 AM
To: Andreas Gietl
Cc: Rafa? ^^MAg^^ Kwa?ny; full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] windowsupdate.com

Andreas Gietl wrote:

>>Hello
>>
>>(root@...ar)(375/ttyp2)(01:15P:08/13/03)-
>>(#:~)- host windowsupdate.com
>>windowsupdate.com has address 207.46.134.30
>>windowsupdate.com has address 207.46.134.94
>>(root@...ar)(376/ttyp2)(01:15P:08/13/03)-
>>(#:~)- telnet 207.46.134.30
>>Trying 207.46.134.30...
>>^C
>>(root@...ar)(378/ttyp2)(01:15P:08/13/03)-
>>(#:~)- telnet 207.46.134.94 80
>>Trying 207.46.134.94...
>>^C
>>
>>they shut down windowsupdate.com ?
>>why today ? strange

 > i guess they are overloaded because of the recent media-coverage
 > of the new dcom-worm.
 >

works for me:

[as@...estar ~]# telnet www.windowsupdate.com 80
Trying 207.46.134.29...
Connected to wu-ori.microsoft.com (207.46.134.29).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 5405
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Location: http://207.46.134.29/Default.htm
Last-Modified: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:26:29 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "a157afdbdccc21:1085"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:27:17 GMT
Connection: close

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