After having the same issue as described here, and also having the wpad DNS query taking 3843 msec (dig wpad output below) I am also available for providing any more information to get this investigated, maybe having the logs from someone else too will help narrowing the issue down.
I have also tried adding wpad to /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1 as suggested in workaround by arilou, but that broke multiplayer of Starcraft completely for me, so removed them. ; <<>> DiG 9.16.15-RH <<>> wpad ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 31665 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;wpad. IN A ;; Query time: 3843 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53) ;; WHEN: Mon May 31 11:34:10 EEST 2021 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 33 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698261 Title: Wine Regression in 17.04 Ubuntu, 16.04 works To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wine/+bug/1698261/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs