I fixed it, or perhaps there was a latency issue here.  I cleaned
out the cache in IE, and after about 3 reboots running wupdmgr
went to the site correctly.  I was on the net since I could get
to microsoft.com; it was when I clicked on the windows update
there that I landed back at the MS dhcp site.

So the moral is to wait, I think -- or clear out IE's cache.  And I
might add when you are doing that, change the default cache
size.  The default is to use some percantage of your disk.  I
now set the cache to 50M to keep from seeing 180K tmp
files on machines I don't see very often (yes, two people's
ThinkPads litterally had 180K files on them).

--STeve Andre' (Political Science)

On Thursday 21 August 2003 04:06 pm, STeve Andre' wrote:
>    I just got a ThinkPad in today which I haven't seen in a long
> time.  I've brought it up to SP4 and the kb832980 level, and
> then went online with it to apply the other patches via windows
> update.
>
>    I had to go to the dhcp registration page.  Fine, that made sense
> so I did that.
>
>    But now, I'm still redirected to the dhcp site when I try to run
> wupdmgr.exe (windows update).  I conclude that something
> thinks the machine is infected.
>
>    Am I missing somewhere that talks about this?  Have I found
> a problem that needs to be addressed?  At this point I have a
> user who is not completely up to date, and I really don't want
> to give them the compuer back 'till I am completely there...  So
> am I missing something (again) ? ;-)
>
> --STeve Andre' (Political Science)