huh

Tue Jan 15 20:27:59 UTC 2002

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >  Um, it's firewalled?  Most of microsoft isn't traceroutable or
> >pingable.
>
> Yup:
>
> b129$ ipsrvtrace -p 80 windowsupdate.microsoft.com
[...]
> 15      65.195.34.226   65.195.34.226   155.934 156.415 156.973
> 16      iusbsecurc1202-ge-6-0.msft.net  207.68.128.66   13.109  13.598  14.142
> 17      -       -       *       *       *
> 18      207.68.131.27   207.68.131.27   13.988  14.373  *

Microsoft has been moving/changing Windowsupdate.microsoft.com for
the last week or so.  The problems have been covered extensively
in other forums.

Although microsoft technicians have messed up access filters on its
routers in the past, I believe this is just them blocking some packets
used by the standard traceroute.  If you are having other problems
with windowsupdate, I think they are unrelated to traceroute.