ISP causes winhttp test failures

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Am 18.04.2010 um 22:15 schrieb Marcus Meissner:
>> Does
>>
>> notexist.example.com  work?
> $ ping notexist.example.com 
> ping: unknown host notexist.example.com
> 
> Looks good. And beyond that, anything that doesn't start with www behaves properly too:
> 
> $ ping www.srevaewedoc.com
> PING www.srevaewedoc.com (67.63.50.48) 56(84) bytes of data.
> $ ping mail.srevaewedoc.com
> ping: unknown host mail.srevaewedoc.com
> $ ping blah.srevaewedoc.com
> ping: unknown host blah.srevaewedoc.com
> 
> Fwiw, I don't think "use another DNS" is a good fix. I don't care about the winhttp test myself, but if other users have similar issues it will spam test.winehq.org with failures.
Well the "use another DNS" was for you and not a generic workaround for
the winetest. That's what I would do if the provider would mess with the
DNS.

bye
	michael