[Bug 20433] New: Earth Eternal cannot connect, creates flood of DNS requests

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20433

           Summary: Earth Eternal cannot connect, creates flood of DNS
                    requests
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.31
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: winsock
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: ramon.cahenzli at gmail.com


Earth Eternal is an online game by Sparkplay Media with an AppDB entry here:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18115

The game is usually started with a parameter telling it where to find its
resources. The parameter takes the form of a URL. 

The current standard URL is used here:

wine Spark.exe
"http://static.beta.eartheternal.com/Release/Current/EarthEternal.car"

However, if this is done in WINE, Earth Eternal floods WINE with
gethostbyname() calls (500 calls per second on my machine). The calls all
return the correct IP address, I've verified this by adding some ugly trace
code to dlls/ws2_32/socket.c. Since Earth Eternal is closed source, we cannot
find out whether the result of the gethostbyname() call is used correctly or
whether that loop of gethostbyname() calls is a bug. 

We are now trying to disassemble the binary to find out.

It seems the game might work otherwise, it has a simple 3D renderer built in a
popular engine (OGRE), and there are a few OGRE-based games that already work
in WINE.

There is a workaround to at least partially get EE to connect and retrieve its
data files. If started like this:

wine Spark.exe "http://208.71.157.18/Release/Current/EarthEternal.car"

The date files are fetched and installed. Connection still fails at the login
screen, though, because the program then proceeds to establish *all*
connections with 208.71.157.18 instead of using the respective servers (login,
static content and routing servers).

Some details of this bug are discussed here:

http://www.eartheternal.com/forums/earth-eternal-chat/topics/EE-on-Linux-In-Progress?page=2

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