Re: ISP causes winhttp test failures

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 04/18/2010 09:49 PM, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Hi,
> I get winhttp test failures on all my machines: http://test.winehq.org/data/780981bc7a2c8e173bea580a2d748fd7cb242468/wine_st...
>
> I suspect my ISP is to blame. When try to resolve a nonexistant domain name I don't get an error, instead I get a search page: http://suche.upc.at/upcatassist/dnsassist/main/?domain=www.sreaverwdoc.moc
>
> $ ping www.sreaverwdoc.moc
> PING www.sreaverwdoc.moc (67.63.50.48): 56 data bytes
> Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
> ...
>
> Verisign was once ordered not to this. But that was in the US. What should we do about this error? I don't think there's any way I can get a DNS error back from my stupid provider :-/

Don't use the DNS servers of your provider ...

bye
    michael