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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)

----- Original Message -----
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


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