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Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup
From: dumdidumdideldey (user05
kyberwelt.de)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2006 - 22:39:57 CDT
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hi
A.L.M.Buxeylboro.ac.uk 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
fqdn which is extempted from being lookud up in the local
hosts-file.
DaveK is absolutely right with his expressions about this behaviour.
i neither do believe this is an attempt to prevent some malware
from interrupting ms-autoupdate. you see ... even microsoft
would never be that shortsighted!!! (errm ... at least i hope so)
virtual
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