[Bug 15716] Wine testcases should not use the public internet, as it causes flakiness

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15716

--- Comment #2 from Austin English   2008-10-28 12:05:18 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Also, the current practice of checking early in the
> test to see if the net is available, and skipping
> the test if it's not, is not sufficient, because
> the net could go down after this check.  We need
> our tests to be thoroughly insulated from the
> public internet; a bandaid like that is fine for
> development, but insufficient for production testing.

Why not install Apache on the patchwatcher box and edit /etc/hosts to point to
that local server?