Microsoft Hardcodes DNS

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Aron Schatz

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Microsoft Hardcodes DNS

Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:41:09 AM #16976 Perm Link

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431027/30/0/threaded

Microsoft is bypassing their own HOSTS file and instead going to a hardcoded IP that is located in a binary DLL. This is not how the Windows DNS client (or should I say BSD?) should work and is undocumented. Microsoft gives themselves a leg up. I understand that this is for security updates and such because it is nothing to rewrite the HOSTS file. Still, it should be documented.

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