This has been reported in a couple other places, like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303300. It seems that many people encounter it (and this is the case for me) when on a network with one of those horrible DNS-hijacking landing pages that are all too common among USA ISPs.
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