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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Windows update down again?
On 8/17/2003 at 5:27 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > It's just come back now. Must have been a temporary holding page while > they did some maintenance. > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, [email protected] 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 Not exactly. Windows update has been failing lately when the computer trying to use it is using a web proxy (Squid, etc.). I have tracked this down to said proxies not being able to proxy objects larger than about 1MB in size: some down-the-line chained proxies I administer were running "cache_mem 4 MB" - and that breaks it consistently. Why this breaks M$ Windows update and seemingly little else is beyond me: I don't know the exact fail-over mechanics of Squid, but I have downloaded single files greater than 50MB through proxies with only 8MB cache_mem with nothing unusual happening. bye,Kai
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