Vista Firewall - Windows Updates

[reachnetster]

Howdo all,

Anyone know what the IP addresses are (I'm assuming there's a block)
of the Windows Update Servers ?
I've setup the Vista Firewall to block all outgoing connections and
allowed an OutBound Rule for svchost for Windows Update - but I'd
prefer to lock it down further by specifying the IPs of the Win
Update
Servers too.

Any ideas anyone ?

TIA, r

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

For security purposes, the IP address for Windows Update
changes quite frequently and no static address would be of use.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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Howdo all,

Anyone know what the IP addresses are (I'm assuming there's a block)
of the Windows Update Servers ?
I've setup the Vista Firewall to block all outgoing connections and
allowed an OutBound Rule for svchost for Windows Update - but I'd
prefer to lock it down further by specifying the IPs of the Win
Update
Servers too.

Any ideas anyone ?

TIA, r

 

[Jon]

Howdo all,

Anyone know what the IP addresses are (I'm assuming there's a block)
of the Windows Update Servers ?
I've setup the Vista Firewall to block all outgoing connections and
allowed an OutBound Rule for svchost for Windows Update - but I'd
prefer to lock it down further by specifying the IPs of the Win
Update
Servers too.

Any ideas anyone ?

TIA, r

You can use 'nslookup' for this.

eg
nslookup microsoft.com
nslookup windowsupdate.microsoft.com

NB You'd also need to set up a outward rule for 'nslookup', if you've set
blocking as the default outward action.

 

[reachnetster]

You can use 'nslookup' for this.

eg
nslookup microsoft.com
nslookup windowsupdate.microsoft.com

NB You'd also need to set up a outward rule for 'nslookup', if you've set
blocking as the default outward action.

Thanks all for the input.

r