On my Win7 PC I have a couple of virtual network adaptors that are used for VMWare server. My HttpWebRequest times out when I have these adaptors enabled. Should I really have to tell it which adaptor to bind to?

            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url.AbsoluteUri + "etc.txt");
            request.Timeout = 2000;

            using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
            {
                using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
                {
                    return reader.ReadToEnd();
                }
            }