From: /m 

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:51:27 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills) wrote:

>In article ,
>Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge"> wrote:
>>
>>It will really help MS if companies etc start editing their dns/hosts to
>>point ms'es urls to localhost or whatever.
>
>One Windows component (I think it's the update monitor, or whatever
>component checks for security fixes etc) already bypasses the HOSTS file
>for certain Microsoft URLS. You'll need to run your own DNS to get around
>it.

Microsoft must have known how truly incidious the fetaure is, if they
thought to bypass host file processing to assure it will work.

 /m

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