Microsoft NCSI?

[Krome]

Am I being probe? lol  Why Microsoft has an NCSI department?   Check this image out and tell me what's up with that?

 

 

[Max Norris]

Heh, no.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766017(v=ws.10).aspx

 

Network Connectivity Status Indicator

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NCSI is designed to be responsive to network conditions, so it examines the connectivity of a network in a variety of ways. For example, NCSI tests connectivity by trying to connect to http://www.msftncsi.com, a simple Web site that exists only to support the functionality of NCSI.

[Krome]

Hmmmm... out of curiosity, I clicked on your 2nd link and everything is blank and it says "page not found"

[Torolol]

Hmmmm... out of curiosity, I clicked on your 2nd link and everything is blank and it says "page not found"

you got a tiny bit different result on: http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt

[Eric Veteran]

There are two valid files on that site:

 

http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt

http://ipv6.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt

 

It's just to test network connectivity, and if you notice in your screenshot it was locally initiated.

[Krome]

ok..   Thanks for the info Eric... hmmm... I should give the Mark Solved to you instead... what do you think?

[Eric Veteran]

Max answered it first with a more thorough description.