Windows 10 Network bug in all versions, fix are planned

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Microsoft’s January 2019 updates are causing a network issue within all supported versions. Some local websites (router config pages) can’t be reached from Microsoft Edge. Microsoft has confirmed this issue and plans a fix in future updates. Details within my blog post:

Windows 10 Network bug in all versions, fix are planned

 

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I did wonder why W10 v1607 kb4480961 did not include the ‘Windows Storage and Filesystems’ fix whereas every other edition of W10 has. Could this attribute cause of the issue down to, or associated with, the ‘Windows Storage and Filesystems’ change/ fix? (process of elimination)

Martin Brinkmann over at Ghacks has the patch attributes/fixes listed in his blog.

perhaps not..(reading blind spot)

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… so does this affect Edge only, or something else too? As in other browsers? …

Well, quick test – looks like on W10 17134.523, yes, problem confirmed in Edge;  Chrome 71.0.3578.98 works just fine. IE also tested, connection successful.

 

Well, it’s a bug all right, but I’d say low severity for most people.

Particularly as the “local LAN” devices are the largest group of destinations where people still have to use IE anyway, what with Java plugins (whoever thought it was a good idea to require Java to be able to configure your RAID adapter properly? Or router…) and such working in nothing else these days. And, IE doesn’t have this particular problem.

 

That particular machine I tested on, is on DHCP and has shown no problems with that.

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Post coming in Computerworld. Hang on.

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mn– wrote:

Well, it’s a bug all right, but I’d say low severity for most people.

Agree – nobody uses Edge. But MS promoted Edge as holy grail – and under this scope the bug is embarrassing. A user following Microsoft’s advice and uses Edge to access his router’s web interface will be puzzled – that’s the funny side of that thing ;-).

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gborn wrote:

Agree – nobody uses Edge.

… apart from the 120,000,000 who do.

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People doing clean installs should use IE 11 to download Chrome or Firefox. That’s all I can say.

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Not needed except in rare cases – Edge works just fine to access public ‘net, which is where most peopler would probably be downloading from.

It’s only the private IP ranges over that are affected, as in 192.168.x.x and such, apparently because they can’t be verified as trustworthy or something. And \\shares don’t go through that either, for most people…

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No problems here.  I have two routers and can access both of them using Edge.  I’ve never blocked any updates, so if an update has been available to my 1809 installation, I’ve got it.

There’s a possibility that this “bug” affects installations that have not been fully updated and are missing some of the underlying framework necessary for the relevant update that causes this issue.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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bbearren wrote:

There’s a possibility that this “bug” affects installations that have not been fully updated and are missing some of the underlying framework necessary for the relevant update that causes this issue.

Interesting, as some will be avoiding certain W10 patches which could have a bearing on the outcome. What if there is no fix planned other than to get FULLY patched? It’s speculation but time will determine the issue.

But, in Woody’s ComputerWorld article there is a statement from MS

The announcement concludes:

Microsoft is working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release.

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Microsoft’s resolution may well be to cobble together the missing pieces of networking updates from previous updates that may have been skipped by some customers into a sort of rollup networking fix.  Or, simply roll back this latest bit of networking update until they can piece together a comprehensive networking update.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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This popped up on me right in the middle of changing several devices to a static IP. It was working fine and all of a sudden it stopped working. I went to IE and everything was fine.
Ron

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