Working now, tested from 3 hosts on different networks on both 80 and 443 :
$ telnet wpa.one.microsoft.com 443 Trying 94.245.126.107... Connected to wpa.one.microsoft.com. Escape character is '^]'. Scott On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Ben Carleton <carle...@vanoc.net> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Nathan Anderson" <nath...@fsr.com> > > To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> > > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:24:16 PM > > Subject: Microsoft Product Activation server reachability > > > > Anybody else having a problem reaching (what appears to be) the sole > > Microsoft Product Activation server (wpa.one.microsoft.com)? > > > > $ ping wpa.one.microsoft.com > > PING wpa.one.microsoft.com (94.245.126.107): 56 data bytes > > 36 bytes from 213.199.189.41: Communication prohibited by filter > > > > I get this sourcing from our network, from AT&T 3G, and from ye > residential > > DSL connection located in the greater Seattle area. They aren't simply > > source-filtering. Either that or they are source-filtering for 0.0.0.0/0 > . > > > > This is apparently the only server/IP they have set up to respond to > these > > requests. wpa.one.microsoft.com resolves to that IP via every DNS server > > I've tried (so no round-robin A records), Microsoft products that need to > > activate over the internet only try to resolve that FQDN, and I've looked > > for others without success (wpa.two.microsoft.com isn't valid, for > example). > > > > -- > > Nathan Anderson > > First Step Internet, LLC > > nath...@fsr.com > > > > > > I am seeing the same from NYC metro. According to MS ( > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457159.aspx#ECAA), access to > that host on 80 and 443 is all that should be required to activate. (and > wpa.one.microsoft.com has no AAAA, go figure) > > [ben@razor ~]$ ping wpa.one.microsoft.com > PING wpa.one.microsoft.com (94.245.126.107) 56(84) bytes of data. > From 213.199.189.41 icmp_seq=2 Packet filtered > ^C > --- wpa.one.microsoft.com ping statistics --- > 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 5260ms > > [ben@razor ~]$ telnet wpa.one.microsoft.com 80 > Trying 94.245.126.107... > ^C > [ben@razor ~]$ telnet wpa.one.microsoft.com 443 > Trying 94.245.126.107... > ^C > > -- Ben > >