Just wanted to update a workaround, it seems like the issue is that the API that Blizzard are using (is probably Winhttp) which ends up doing DNS lookups for wpad, which simply times out.
A simple solution that worked for me was to add to /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 wpad 127.0.0.1 wpad.lan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698261 Title: Wine Regression in 17.04 Ubuntu, 16.04 works To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wine/+bug/1698261/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
