Smoothwall - Dmd.metaservices.microsoft.com

[dapaulio]

Good evening all.

 

im not sure whether i have been experiencing this since before the recategorisation but i seem to have a load of devices across the network hitting dmd.metaservices.microsoft.com with a 503 error.

 

Googling it seems to be a services which are related to the OS and the device metadata but trying to understand it better and is the 503 is as it say service unavailable or is there a misconfiguration in my smoothwall somewhere

[ibpalle]

Is there anything not working on your Office 365 products? Any service that you can't use?

 

503 is gateway timeout so no reply to the request. It may simply not be available any more. Certainly doesn't look like the host has a TCP 443 service running.

Edited December 14, 2023 by ibpalle

[dapaulio]

Not that we are aware of. too be honest its only something that has caught my eye as we are actively monitoring logs at the moment and we are jumping on things which look out of place.

Thanks

[5tu]

If it helps, I've just checked our Smoothie and I'm seeing the same.... 503 on dmd.metaservices.microsoft.com

[dapaulio]

If it helps, I've just checked our Smoothie and I'm seeing the same.... 503 on dmd.metaservices.microsoft.com

 

that is helpful thank you I can probably write it off as a non problem

[ovenchips]

It's Microsoft's Metadata platform for device identification / icons .etc.

They shut it off recently due to the HP Smart app install issue.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/messed_up_metadata_to_blame/