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		walterbell 56 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly ex... Apple traffic goes to 17.0.0.0/8 + CDNs aliased to .apple.com, which my egress router blocks except for Apple-documented endpoints for notifications and software update, https://support.apple.com/en-us/101555 appldnld.apple.com configuration.apple.com gdmf.apple.com gg.apple.com gs.apple.com ig.apple.com mesu.apple.com mesu.apple.com ns.itunes.apple.com oscdn.apple.com osrecovery.apple.com skl.apple.com swcdn.apple.com swdist.apple.com swdownload.apple.com swscan.apple.com updates.cdn-apple.com updates-http.cdn-apple.com xp.apple.com There was no overlap between unexpected traffic and Apple CDN vendors.

nickburns 56 days ago [–]

'Apple-documented' being operative here.

walterbell 56 days ago | [–]

True, perhaps OVH in Germany (one anomaly example) is an Apple vendor. No way to know.

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