Let me explain a few things
1) Patchsrv.dat is built INTO the exe. What it stores is the patch server data. But it is a resource inside the patch.exe itself.
2) We have it doing "weird" things to keep people from piggybacking on our system to download old files as much as possible. It does a connection to an IP address itself, that is why proxies DO NOT WORK WITH IT!. It opens an IP address to the patch server then does its own downloads, it is NOT USING INTERNET EXPLORER. Yes, the hostname it is trying to request does not exist. It is designed that way. It does a DNS on a whole other domain to get the ip of the server, does a direct tcp connection to port 80, then does its own HTTP/1.1 handling.
3) We dont know why some people are having problems.
I have had no problems with it on Directly connected Windows 2000 workstations (Latest Service Pack) and Windows XP Pro (Latest Service Pack + hotfixes). My machines are not behind a nat firewall device or any type of proxy server that my ISP makes me go through (like some dsl/cable providers do).
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