How to disable Microsoft hostname lookup "enhancements"?
I found the answer: In case you have the same problem, go to registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TCPIP\Parameters
and empty the mshome.net
value from the ICSDomain
key, then disable and re-enable your network adapter.
UPDATE: After few days, it stopped working again. I've found that IPv6 DNS is also redirecting to Bing. I don't know, where Windows get the IPv6 DNS since my DHCP server is not providing that and I have not set up that. So, I've disabled IPv6 for now and it works.
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lady
Updated on September 17, 2022Comments
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lady over 1 year
Recently, I found if I enter a single word query "blah" into a browser (Firefox or Safari) on my home Windows machine (not connected to domain) then search is redirected to Bing, instead of my default search engine Google.
I've suspected that it is not problem of the browser, but rather hostname resolving "feature". So, I've tried
> ping blah
and it outputs
... blah.mshome.net [207.46.31.61] ...
Whois on the IP said:
OrgName: Microsoft Corp OrgID: MSFT Address: One Microsoft Way City: Redmond StateProv: WA PostalCode: 98052 Country: US NetRange: 207.46.0.0 - 207.46.255.255
When I checked the communication between the browser using Wireshark, I've got following:
Request to
207.46.31.61
:GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: blah ...
Response:
HTTP/1.1 302 Found Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Location: http://www.bing.com/search?q=blah&form=MSSRPD Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0 X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:20:03 GMT Content-Length: 166 <html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body> <h2>Object moved to <a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=blah&form=MSSRPD">here</a>.</h2> </body></html>
This is quite annoying. It seems to me, that Microsoft tries hard to force user to use Bing (e.g. recent issue with Bing toolbar).
Could anyone help?
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heavyd almost 14 yearsAre you sure this is not your ISP's DNS servers? Who is the ISP? What are you DNS settings?
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lady almost 14 yearsDNS IPv4 were ok. But I found that DNS IPv6 was causing the problem.
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lady almost 14 yearsThx, but this was not caused by IPv4 but rather by IPv6.