full-disclosure - windowsupdate.microsoft.com limits on how many times a computer can access it

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From: edwin at link.net.id (SPAM)
Subject: windowsupdate.microsoft.com limits on how many times a computer can access it

there's nothing wrong with it from where I am now, tried it more then 10
times from 3 different puters.. Something at your end.... no pun intended
something at your end must have caused the "incident"

Ed

----- 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&pver=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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