On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Christopher Schulte wrote:
Looks to me as if Microsoft is altering global delegation of their windowsupdate service. Maybe diversifying the dns structure as they did with microsoft.com after the attacks a while back? They now have 12 DNS servers scattered around the globe, just to serve microsoft.com dns.
Yeah, maybe they're moving they're update service from windowsupdate.microsoft.com to windowsupdate.com. Maybe they'll "Akamize" windowsupdate.com too... bash-2.04$ host www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com is a nickname for www.microsoft.akadns.net www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.230.218 www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.230.219 www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.230.220 www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.197.100 www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.197.101 www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.197.113 www.microsoft.akadns.net has address 207.46.197.102 bash-2.04$ host windowsupdate.microsoft.com windowsupdate.microsoft.com has address 207.46.106.88 bash-2.04$ host windowsupdate.com windowsupdate.com has address 207.46.106.88 windowsupdate.com has address 207.46.226.17 windowsupdate.com has address 207.68.131.27 -Ian