I presume he's talking about this one: "Programs that connect to IP addresses that are in the loopback address range may not work as you expect in Windows XP Service Pack 2"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=884020 Cheers, Phil ---- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Ron DuFresne > Sent: 15 November 2004 20:02 > To: Gregory Gilliss > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Gregory Gilliss wrote: > > > One comment about XP2 - the company where I work (which produces > > security networking appliances) has a corporate policy - we do not > > support XP2. Sales hates this (because all the numbnuts out > there are > > pulling SP2 down with autoupdate and they have no clue what > they have > > brought upon themselves) but since M$ was so idiotic as to > disable the > > network functionality that allows reverse proxies to > function properly > > (and I'm not talking about Juniper's back door where they > pipe things > > straight through) it basically makes my company's (and every other > > company's) product break. > > > > The really dumb part is that M$ has a patch for their > misdeeds and a > > knowledge base article and everything - but it's not incoroporated > > into autoupdate. Wonder why they would not include that fix > for SP2 in > > autoupdate? Maybe they *want* to break other company's products? > > Nah ... <G> > > > > I'm sure many would have liked to the the direct link to the sp2 fix. > > Thanks, > > Ron DuFresne > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in > humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets > us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and > self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart > ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!*** > > OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything. > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
