Re: fedwu.windowsupdate.com "Fed WU" ?

From: derek (guess@guess.com)
Date: 12/22/01 

From: derek <guess@guess.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 10:47:06 +1100

Its called round robin DNS, and is designed to share the load.

Derek

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:20:50 -0000, "Dave Korn" <no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid> wrote:

> It's some sort of load balancing thing where the same name returns
>different IP addresses each time its queried, that way the load is shared
>between different machines.
>
> The fact that there's a new hostname isn't of any significance: network
>admins like to move things around every now and again.
>
> Assuming the traceroute shows that the packets are being delivered to M$
>network, I wouldn't get too paranoid about it.
>
> That is to say, I'd assume it was a genuine machine under control of M$,
>delivering a genuine product patch, and not that I'd assume win XP isn't
>full of backdoors for M$; that's another matter altogether.
>
> DaveK

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