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From: Claus.Bitten at framfab.de (Claus Bitten)
Subject: AW: windowsupdate.microsoft.com limits on how m
	any times a computer can access it

Hi,

First of all even Microsoft might have some Server- oder Networkproblems
(load-balancer or else).
And I do not think that MS restrict IPs (except maybe some active
firewalling to prevent DOS) 
because with NAT widely used blocking IPs (mostly firewalls) would render
windowsupdate unuseable.

regards,
Claus 

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Irwan Hadi" <irwanhadi@...by.com>
> To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 9:13 AM
> Subject: [Full-Disclosure] windowsupdate.microsoft.com limits 
> on how many
> times a computer can access it
> 
> 
> > I just got an incident where everytime I try to access
> > windowsupdate.microsoft.com, I keep getting this error:
> >
> http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&clcid=0x0409&p
> ver=6.0&ar=ienews&os=N6
> > Service Unavailable
> > The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try
> > again later.
> >
> > Well, I used to be able to access 
> windowsupdate.microsoft.com a couple
> > hours ago with this computer, but after visiting it again 
> and again for
> > around 7 times, now I can't access it anymore.
> >
> > It seems that the windowsupdate.microsoft.com server now 
> limits on how
> > many times a computer can access it, because when I tried by using
> > a different computer with different IP address, it worked just fine.
> >
> > Anyway, below is the IP address of 
> windowsupdate.microsoft.com from my
> > place (remember that windowsupdate now uses Akamai)
> > phxby@...by:~> host windowsupdate.microsoft.com
> > windowsupdate.microsoft.com is an alias for
> > windowsupdate.microsoft.nsatc.net.
> > windowsupdate.microsoft.nsatc.net has address 207.46.134.92
> > windowsupdate.microsoft.nsatc.net has address 207.46.249.56
> > phxby@...by:~>
> >
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