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.