ISP causes winhttp test failures

Julius Schwartzenberg julius.schwartzenberg at gmail.com
Sun Apr 18 15:14:51 CDT 2010


Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> I get winhttp test failures on all my machines: http://test.winehq.org/data/780981bc7a2c8e173bea580a2d748fd7cb242468/wine_stefand-amd64/winhttp:winhttp.html
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> I suspect my ISP is to blame. When try to resolve a nonexistant domain name I don't get an error, instead I get a search page: http://suche.upc.at/upcatassist/dnsassist/main/?domain=www.sreaverwdoc.moc
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> Verisign was once ordered not to this. But that was in the US. What should we do about this error? I don't think there's any way I can get a DNS error back from my stupid provider :-/

Maybe you could use Google's DNS servers for example:
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Regards,
Julius



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