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

[Jurjen Oskam <jurjen () stupendous org>]

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

Why guess when it takes all of 30 seconds to *see* what happens?

I tried (using go.microsoft.com), and saw that it uses the same DNS server
as the one being used for all other queries.
-- 
Jurjen Oskam

Savage's Law of Expediency:
        You want it bad, you'll get it bad.

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