On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Michael Stefaniuc <[email protected]> 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
