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Re: Windows update down again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (variable@ednet.co.uk)
Sun Aug 17 17:28:20 2003
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:27:49 +0100 (BST)
From: variable@ednet.co.uk
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308172214230.5164-100000@pachabel.ednet.co.uk>
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It's just come back now. Must have been a temporary holding page while
they did some maintenance.
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, variable@ednet.co.uk wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was just updating a couple of Windows machines and had been using
> Windows Update without any problems until about 5 mins ago (22:10 GMT)
> when I've started getting this:
>
> "Thank you for your interest in Windows Update
>
> Windows Update is the online extension of Windows that helps you get the
> most out of your computer.
>
> The latest version of Windows Update is available on computers that are
> running Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows
> Millennium Edition, Windows 2000 (except Windows 2000 Datacenter Server),
> Windows XP, and the Windows Server 2003 family."
>
> URL is http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/default.asp which redirects
> to http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/thanks.asp. Also happens for
> http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/.
>
> This is from multiple machines running Windows 2000 (Pro and Server) and
> Windows 2003 server. Anyone else seeing this yet?
>
> Does anyone know of an alternative URL for Windows Update in the meantime?
>
> Rich
>
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