WindowsAzure.com

It looks like the Windows Azure website is hosted in Azure.

C:\Users\richard.astbury>ping www.windowsazure.com
Pinging wamktg-prod-am-001.cloudapp.net [65.52.128.236] with 32 bytes of data:

Has this always been the case?

Writing trace to Table Storage

This article provides a useful walk through on how to configure the Azure Trace Listener to write to Table Storage.

However, this line is very interesting:

DiagnosticMonitor.Start("DiagnosticsConnectionString");

The diagnostics monitor actually takes no notice of the setting name you pass in (other than to ensure it’s value is a correctly formatted connection string with HTTPS enabled). It will always use this setting:

Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString

 

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Ports in use on an Azure Worker Role

D:\Users\richard>netstat -a

Active Connections

  Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
  TCP    0.0.0.0:135            RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:445            RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:3389           RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:16001          RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:49152          RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:49153          RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:49154          RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    0.0.0.0:49155          RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    10.211.208.81:139      RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    10.211.208.81:3389     RD00155D362B3E:49167   ESTABLISHED
  TCP    10.211.208.81:20000    RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    10.211.208.81:20000    94.245.124.139:21287   ESTABLISHED
  TCP    10.211.208.81:49156    10.211.209.20:http     ESTABLISHED
  TCP    10.211.208.81:49164    10.211.209.20:http     ESTABLISHED
  TCP    10.211.208.81:49167    RD00155D362B3E:ms-wbt-server  ESTABLISHED
  TCP    10.211.208.81:49174    blob:https             ESTABLISHED
  TCP    [::]:135               RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    [::]:445               RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    [::]:3389              RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    [::]:16001             RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    [::]:49152             RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    [::]:49153             RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    [::]:49154             RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  TCP    [::]:49155             RD00155D362B3E:0       LISTENING
  UDP    0.0.0.0:123            *:*
  UDP    0.0.0.0:500            *:*
  UDP    0.0.0.0:4500           *:*
  UDP    0.0.0.0:5355           *:*
  UDP    10.211.208.81:137      *:*
  UDP    10.211.208.81:138      *:*
  UDP    [::]:123               *:*
  UDP    [::]:500               *:*
  UDP    [::]:5355              *:*
  UDP    [fe80::988:6019:94b7:912%15]:546  *:*