[plug] Is MS up to it's old tricks?

[Leon Brooks]

On Sunday 23 December 2001 02:18, Craig Foster wrote:
> Has anyone notice those people who've used WindowsXP on their networks
> have been rigorously hit with DNS requests from Microsoft machines?

> The offending IPs are :-
> 207.68.131.17 (a MSN address)
> 207.46.106.84 (sjwu3dns1.windowsupdate.com)

> I'm a tad miffed, as this happens on three networks I know of...

The only networks I have where the gateway IP is not also a DNS server of 
some kind do not run anything beyond W2K. But it would seem, well, kind of 
inevitable that Microsoft would try to track XP users... )-:

Cheers; Leon