Windows 10: Windows 10 possible bug: Windows updates sharing does not respect lan setting

This affects certainly build 1909, possibly the newer ones.


Description: we have a number of Windows 10 systems on a 10 private network. This is a WAN network spanning many cities, but our LAN occupies a small 10.X.Y.0/24 ie netmask 255.255.255.0 portion.


We have enabled these systems to share Windows updates with computers in the LAN, to speed up updates. Our LAN has only a 2Mbps link to the WAN. After receiving complains from users on this LAN we discovered that the 2Mbps was saturated. Investigating issues it seemed that our systems were serving these Windows updates to other 10.q.v.w hosts that do not reside in our LAN.


Possible cause: the Windows update mechanism considers the 10 network as an entire 10/8 one, disregarding the fact that it can be allocated to smaller segments. That is, it does not take into account the local subnet /24 in our case, or whatever the out-of-our-lan hosts have, definitely not /8 though.


Lacking a firewall to drop incoming TCP traffic to local 7xxx/TCP which is the Windows update port, IIRC, we had to completely disable this p2p mechanism for updates, leading to slower updates.


I do not know for certain if this is a bug or a feature. I do know that it is killing network bandwidth, considering the number of Windows 10 hosts he have on the LAN.

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