14 Dec
2001
14 Dec
'01
17:10
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