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Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, imipak wrote:


Nick FitzGerald wrote:


So, the exception is not that the IP is hard-coded, but that the DNS resolver 
skips looking in hosts for that _domain_ and necessarily does a network DNS 
lookup...


Unless the DNS server is itself hardcoded in MediaPlayer, as well?
My guess is that it uses a default dns server from microsoft at a stable IP. 

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