I'm running into http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15716 more and more often. We really need to set up mock servers so test cases don't need to rely on the public internet.
I'm slowly bringing up a second patchwatcher using the newly refactored code. I even wrote some documentation on how to set up a patchwatcher instance: http://code.google.com/p/winezeug/source/browse/trunk/patchwatcher/readme.tx... I don't really recommend anybody (but Rob) try to do this until we finish working out the bugs, though.