So you would expect different results in the southern hemisphere?

It's already winter down here, those antineutrinos should be delightfully plump...

Here's a thought.

LAN mode wouldn't require any mad crazy hacks to BattleNet to make it work;
So rather than making us wait six more months ("first half of 2010" = not before March; April 2010 = 11 years after SC1) for half a game crippled by it's dependence on internet access; why not give us a LAN-capable version now and roll out BattleNet in the first patch ?

Of course, if they did that I might actually, you know, buy a copy. As it is, my money is staying in my pocket.

No LAN = No Point.

Here's an idea. Request the IP for a domain you know doesn't exist - xyzzy.yourcompany.com might be useful; as your company can control it.
If you get NXDOMAIN, you know you're on a real DNS grid and can now do DNS lookups for real domains.
If you get an A-Record (or any other sort of record), you know you're DNS-jacked.

If you're really lucky, the 'jackers are using a single A-Record for all their 'jacks; so you can cache that answer and compare it to any subsequent request. If it matches, you know it's "really" NXDOMAIN and you're away laughing.

I think that this will work. I just don't see why we should have to hack around their failure.