The firewall I am using (on my laptop) is Tiny Personal Firewall (http://www.tinysoftware.com/pwall.php) - it prompted me on whether or not I would like to allow it to contact domestic.microsoft.com or not, I set it to "Deny" and the install completed successfully. Needless to say I'll keep that rule around until I have problems. :) -----Original Message----- From: Eric K. Johansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 3:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'John Oliver' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: XP During my install of the Windows XP Plus! pack on Windows XP Professional RTM (build 2600) it attempted to contact 207.46.230.220 (www.domestic.microsoft.com) on port 80, the guilty application was c:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe - so apparently this tool hits M$FT every time you run one of their (or all?) .msi files? It attempted this during the install of the OS (I did an upgrade from a beta copy) but I didn't write the information down at that time (I should have...doh!) but I do recall it contacting a server on port 80, and it is likely the same server. Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:33 PM To: John Oliver Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XP So if you don't have web access you can't install and run Microsoft XP?? Also has anyone snooped this transfer and found what port etc.. the data is going out on? And what IP the data is being sent to. -------------- Brian Carpio CSG Systems Inc. Open Systems Unix System Admin x3317 -------------- --- Security is a Process NOT a Product ----
