Re: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup

[Vidar Løkken <vidarlo () vestdata no>]

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?

My guess is that it uses a default dns server from microsoft at a stable 
IP.

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Vidar
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