Re: Windows update down again?

[Kai Schlichting <kai () pac-rim net>]

On 8/17/2003 at 5:27 PM, "variable () ednet co uk" <variable () ednet co uk> wrote:


> It's just come back now.  Must have been a temporary holding page while 
> they did some maintenance.

> On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, variable () ednet co uk 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