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Re: Microsoft Product Activation server reachability
From: Ben Carleton <carleton () vanoc net>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:02:30 -0500 (EST)
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From: "Nathan Anderson" <nathana () fsr com> To: "nanog () nanog org" <nanog () nanog org> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:24:16 PM Subject: Microsoft Product Activation server reachability Anybody else having a problem reaching (what appears to be) the sole Microsoft Product Activation server (wpa.one.microsoft.com)? $ ping wpa.one.microsoft.com PING wpa.one.microsoft.com (94.245.126.107): 56 data bytes 36 bytes from 213.199.189.41: Communication prohibited by filter I get this sourcing from our network, from AT&T 3G, and from ye residential DSL connection located in the greater Seattle area. They aren't simply source-filtering. Either that or they are source-filtering for 0.0.0.0/0. This is apparently the only server/IP they have set up to respond to these requests. wpa.one.microsoft.com resolves to that IP via every DNS server I've tried (so no round-robin A records), Microsoft products that need to activate over the internet only try to resolve that FQDN, and I've looked for others without success (wpa.two.microsoft.com isn't valid, for example). -- Nathan Anderson First Step Internet, LLC nathana () fsr com
I am seeing the same from NYC metro. According to MS (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457159.aspx#ECAA), access to that host on 80 and 443 is all that should be required to activate. (and wpa.one.microsoft.com has no AAAA, go figure) [ben@razor ~]$ ping wpa.one.microsoft.com PING wpa.one.microsoft.com (94.245.126.107) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 213.199.189.41 icmp_seq=2 Packet filtered
^C --- wpa.one.microsoft.com ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 5260ms [ben@razor ~]$ telnet wpa.one.microsoft.com 80 Trying 94.245.126.107... ^C [ben@razor ~]$ telnet wpa.one.microsoft.com 443 Trying 94.245.126.107... ^C -- Ben
Current thread:
- Microsoft Product Activation server reachability Nathan Anderson (Jan 10)
- Re: Microsoft Product Activation server reachability Pui Edylie (Jan 10)
- Re: Microsoft Product Activation server reachability Ben Carleton (Jan 10)
- Re: Microsoft Product Activation server reachability Scott Howard (Jan 10)
- RE: Microsoft Product Activation server reachability Nathan Anderson (Jan 10)
- Re: Microsoft Product Activation server reachability Yang Yu (Jan 11)
- RE: Microsoft Product Activation server reachability Nathan Anderson (Jan 11)
- Re: Microsoft Product Activation server reachability Scott Howard (Jan 10)