https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52557
--- Comment #3 from Michael J Evans mjevans1983@gmail.com --- As was the case in bug #54251 and bug #24252 even with working DNS servers generally (E.G. curl and ping work just fine), on a system with multiple interfaces that are usable but not presently connected to a network with a DNS server it will still loop forever. Be that a videogame or ipconfig /all
As in the patch Hans linked in https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54251#c3 the correct action is to fail when there is no specific reason to retry.