Was there a solution for this? I've just started seeing the same message in
Event Viewer. I believe at the time the error is logged, I was on the
internet at a beta site viewing messages.
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"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
> "Mike" <mike.hatfield@hatfields.com.au> wrote in message
> news:uHCUVXu7FHA.1032@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
> ....
> > In the last week or so I've been getting hundreds of crypt32 event id 8
> > messages in the event log.
>
>
> Please describe your connection path (e.g. firewall, proxy, etc.)
> It looks as if you might have a blockage in it for some reason.
> Try to bypass any potential blockages if possible.
> If you are trying to do port blocking be aware that you must allow
> both 80 and 443 (for HTTP and HTTPS) for Windows Update
> and its related sites to work properly.
>
> One known cause of related problems is software called Web Accelerators
> which try to use the Hosts file to speed up DNS lookups. That technique
> is not applicable to sites which have a large number of IP addresses which
> are frequently changed, such as the ones WU uses.
>
>
> > Failed auto update retrieval of third arty root list sequence number from:
> ....
>
> Test the addressability and connectivity of that site name in a cmd window
> (e.g. using nslookup, and ping -n 1 or telnet 80)
>
> www.download.windowsupdate.com
>
>
> Hmm... apparently that whole URL is quite accessible
>
> http://www.download.windowsupdate.co...uthrootseq.txt
>
>
> Alternatively, there should be timestamps on your event log records.
> Try to correlate them with what was happening at that time in the
> WindowsUpdate.log Etc.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
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