ISP causes winhttp test failures

[Marcus Meissner]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 09:49:35PM +0200, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Hi,
> I get winhttp test failures on all my machines: http://test.winehq.org/data/780981bc7a2c8e173bea580a2d748fd7cb242468/wine_stefand-amd64/winhttp:winhttp.html
> 
> 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
> 
> $ ping www.sreaverwdoc.moc
> PING www.sreaverwdoc.moc (67.63.50.48): 56 data bytes
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
> ...
> 
> 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 :-/

Does

notexist.example.com  work?

Ciao, Marcus