Geez, the paranoia here is *rampant*. It's a fricking NTP service. Put something else in there, if you want. I have my XP machines set to contact my Linux machine. Personally, I think that Microsoft is being incredibly nice by providing an NTP server that can withstand several million service requests per hour.
-----Original Message----- From: Ray Dillinger [mailto:bear@sonic.net] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 9:10 AM To: Michael Appeldorn Cc: suse-security@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-security] WindowsXP contact it's home ?!
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Michael Appeldorn wrote:
Today I saw in some firewall logs a misconfigured interface with martian source lines.
So far- so good. But this is a new XPnotebook that contacts with the standard IP of network-adapter 169.x.x.x a page at microsoft
time.windows.com
not nice. Anybody knows more. Should I block certain MS-Sites with my firewall?
If you consistently prevent XP from contacting Microsoft, it will quit working after sixty days. I think this particular call is just setting the system time, but the license code also depends on servers at Microsoft.
Bear
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