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Microsoft Product Activation server reachability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Anderson)
Thu Jan 10 23:24:35 2013
From: Nathan Anderson <nathana@fsr.com>
To: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:24:16 -0800
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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).
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Nathan Anderson
First Step Internet, LLC
nathana@fsr.com
