ISP causes winhttp test failures

[Austin English]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Have you complained to your ISP? The ones in this area have a webpage
that allows you to disable it.

-- 
-Austin