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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately
sabotaged hosts-file lookup
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:29:15PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
Hey, guess what I just found out: Microsoft have deliberately
sabotaged their DNS client's hosts
Nick FitzGerald wrote:
So, the exception is not that the IP is hard-coded, but that the DNS resolver
skips looking in hosts for that _domain_ and necessarily does a network DNS
lookup...
Presumably, it uses whichever DNS server the local OS thinks it
should use, no differently than any
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, imipak wrote:
Nick FitzGerald wrote:
So, the exception is not that the IP is hard-coded, but that the DNS resolver
skips looking in hosts for that _domain_ and necessarily does a network DNS
lookup...
Unless the DNS server is itself hardcoded in MediaPlayer, as well?
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 06:00:23PM +0200, Vidar L?kken wrote:
So, the exception is not that the IP is hard-coded, but that the DNS
resolver skips looking in hosts for that _domain_ and necessarily does a
network DNS lookup...
Unless the DNS server is itself hardcoded in MediaPlayer, as
Hey, guess what I just found out: Microsoft have deliberately sabotaged
their DNS client's hosts table lookup functionality.
Normally you can override DNS lookup by specifying a hostname and IP
directly in the hosts file, which is searched before any query is issued to
your dns server;
On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:29 , Dave Korn wrote:
Hey, guess what I just found out: Microsoft have deliberately
sabotaged
their DNS client's hosts table lookup functionality.
I thought this was part of avoiding malware attempts to block Windows
Update.
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brandon s. allbery
I don't even get the same IP address for that. I have 64.4.52.189 .
I tried to change it in the host files with the same results. Next I will block that IP in my firewall and see what happens.
Ducki3
On 4/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,...makes me wonder what happens
On 4/13/06, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:29 , Dave Korn wrote:
Hey, guess what I just found out: Microsoft have deliberately
sabotaged
their DNS client's hosts table lookup functionality.
I thought this was part of avoiding malware attempts
hi,
...makes me wonder what happens if/when they need to change the
IP address of go.microsoft.com
many many people have already been burnt by the hardcoding of
addresses/IPs into their applications.
a
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hi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,
...makes me wonder what happens if/when they need to change the
IP address of go.microsoft.com
many many people have already been burnt by the hardcoding of
addresses/IPs into their applications.
thats the point. its not the ip which is hardcoded. its the
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:29:15PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
Hey, guess what I just found out: Microsoft have deliberately sabotaged
their DNS client's hosts table lookup functionality.
(...) I'd try to block (Windows Media Player) it in my hosts file.
Microsoft DNS client
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:29 , Dave Korn wrote:
Hey, guess what I just found out: Microsoft have deliberately
sabotaged their DNS client's hosts table lookup functionality.
I thought this was part of avoiding malware attempts to block
John Doe wrote:
I don't even get the same IP address for that. I have 64.4.52.189 .
I tried to change it in the host files with the same results. Next I will
block that IP in my firewall and see what happens.
Think load-balancing, dynaminc content distribution hosting, etc.
A...
So, the
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