[Bug 38820] PunkBuster pbsetup 3.8 fails to download updates

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38820

--- Comment #4 from Olivier F. R. Dierick <o.dierick at piezo-forte.be> ---
Hello.

I took a closer look at wget output and wireshark capture. I noticed that
websec.evenbalance.com resolved to 3 different IPs. I used wget several times
to switch through the 3 different IPs one at a time, and pbsetup only worked
when it resolved the URL to one out of the 3 IPs.

When I found this I made several test with ping, dig, and compared the results
using my network DNS server, my ISP DNS server and the Google public DNS
server.

The issue is that pbsetup doesn't support round-robin cycling in the DNS
response. It expects the IPs to always be in a fixed order. My network DNS
server and my ISP DNS server do cycle the responses. The Google DNS server does
not. Switching the primary DNS server on my computer to the Google one did the
trick.

So, I reconfigured my local DNS server to return fixed order for forwarded
queries and set my router to use the Google public DNS servers instead of the
one of my ISP. pbsetup is working fine now.

The PunkBuster service still fails in the game, however.
I'll open a new bug if I cannot find a fix.

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