I figured I'd contact them about it, but I wanted to see if anyone here knew anything about it first. -Ian On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Christian Nielsen wrote:

I guess microsoft could.

Why not contact them?

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Ian A Finlay wrote:

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Can anyone shed light here?

iaf@duwo/iaf 148=>nslookup Default Server: duwo.pair.com Address: 209.68.2.64

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windowsupdate.microsoft.com Server: duwo.pair.com Address: 209.68.2.64

*** duwo.pair.com can't find windowsupdate.microsoft.com: Non-existent host/domain

I'm seeing this from several different places on the Internet. Also, the TTLs were very short a little bit ago:

$ dig windowsupdate.microsoft.com

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> windowsupdate.microsoft.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; windowsupdate.microsoft.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION: windowsupdate.microsoft.com. 30S IN A 207.46.226.17

;; Total query time: 76 msec ;; FROM: holmes.blue.cert.org to SERVER: default -- 192.88.209.153 ;; WHEN: Fri Dec 28 11:32:11 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 45 rcvd: 88

-Ian

Christian ---------

i am me, i dont write/speak for them