Apparently its was entirely server side and has been fixed… The traffic now goes to "metrics.mzstatic.com" so it looks like it was a bug in the iTunes Store views rather than something hard-coded in iOS.
Wayne On 2012-10-02, at 8:14 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 02, 2012, at 05:29 , Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A big fail, I'm afraid. Apple's software tried to contact >> bogusapple.com (presumably to have a "known to failed" test) but >> someone registered the domain yesterday : >> >> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4380270?tstart=0 > > Saw that yesterday, since little snitch said iTunes wanted to go to > bogusapple.com which seemed a bit, shall we say, unusual. > > How could Apple hard-code something like that? Even assuming they thought it > was a good idea, how do you not register the domain to ensure someone doesn't > do it for you? > > Also, insert joke / complaint about wildcards @ the roots or GTLDs.... > > -- > TTFN, > patrick > > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations > dns-jobs mailing list > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
