Re: Blocking Access to Windows Update

[RLVaughn <Randy_Vaughn () BAYLOR EDU>]

Hello Ron,

You can use DNSKong as a pseudo-DNS server for the boxes.  Just add the site
name to DNSKong's named.txt
<http://pyrenean.com/betatest/beta.htm>

Tuesday, October 12, 2004, 4:04:03 PM, you wrote:
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> We have a little problem. Apparently one or more of our lab software
> images is not set correctly to contact our campus SUS server rather than
> going to Microsoft. These labs all use Deep Freeze so they keep
> downloading service packs and Windows updates that are never installed,
> every day, over and over. This is generating a huge amount of network
> traffic over our internet links. Do any of you have a list of IP
> addresses, an ACL or a BGP config that will block access to the Windows
> update servers while we figure this out? I've been fighting this all day
> and it seems like every time I block a server address, another one pops
> up.

> --
> Ron Parker, Director of Information Technology, Brazosport College
> Voice: (979) 230-3480             FAX: (979) 230-3111
> http://www.brazosport.edu

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Best regards,

Randal Vaughn
Professor
Baylor University

mailto:Randy_Vaughn () Baylor edu

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