I fixed my 0x800A138F update problem in Win 2K Probably works in XP too

[Robert Duffy]

I was having trouble with the update site too and turned off my host file program and
then everything was ok. I have about 400 Akamai addresses in that host file and I
forgot that Akamai does a lot of work hosting servers for lots of different folk. It
just doesn't serve up ad content which is why a lot of people block them. Well done on
spotting the reason for your situation and passing it on. It is obviously very
relevant and MS are not saying anything.

http://www.computercops.biz/article2811.html
According to a post on the Netcraft Web site, Microsoft changed its DNS settings on
Friday so that requests for www.microsoft.com no longer resolve to machines on
Microsoft's own network, but instead are handled by the Akamai caching system, which
runs Linux.

Akamai runs a service to help boost Web site performance by caching copies of Web
sites on many servers in many locations. Akamai can help defend against
denial-of-service attacks by spreading the attack among many servers. Just as a
distributed denial-of-service attack enlists large numbers of systems to attack a
single server, Akamai presents a distributed defense against denial-of-service
attacks.

"Scott Clarke" <sc...@openhands.ca> wrote in message
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>
> After digging around at length trying to fix this, I read
> a post on spyware removers. Mine (Spybot S&D), like many
> others, alters the hosts file (c:\winnt\system32
> \drivers\etc\hosts) redirecting "bad" addresses locally.
>
> I found the address of the akamai server that update was
> attempting to connect to when it failed in the windows
> update log, like this:
>
> 2003-09-15 16:25:28 20:25:28 Error IUENGINE
> Querying software update catalog from
> https://a248.e.akamai.net/v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ge
> tmanifest.asp (Error 0x800C0005)
>
> I then located a redirect for that very server,
> a248.e.akamai.net, in my hosts file, looking like this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 a248.e.akamai.net
>
> and deleted it, then saving the hosts file.
>
> As soon as I did that, I could update again.

[t yler richmond]

So what should be in the host file? I didnt have anything
besides localhost

>-----Original Message-----
>
>After digging around at length trying to fix this, I
read
>a post on spyware removers. Mine (Spybot S&D), like many
>others, alters the hosts file (c:\winnt\system32
>\drivers\etc\hosts) redirecting "bad" addresses locally.
>
>I found the address of the akamai server that update was
>attempting to connect to when it failed in the windows
>update log, like this:
>
>2003-09-15 16:25:28 20:25:28 Error IUENGINE
>Querying software update catalog from
>https://a248.e.akamai.net/v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
ge
>tmanifest.asp (Error 0x800C0005)
>
>I then located a redirect for that very server,
>a248.e.akamai.net, in my hosts file, looking like this:
>
>127.0.0.1 a248.e.akamai.net
>
>and deleted it, then saving the hosts file.
>
>As soon as I did that, I could update again.

>.
>

[Robert Duffy]

What is the Hosts file?
http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/what_is_hosts.html

To run the host file I use a program from Ray Marron called Hostess.
http://accs-net.com/hostess/

"t yler richmond" <maste...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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