Outgoing network from windows app?

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I'm not entirely sure this is a bug or something unsupported or perhaps the windows program I am trying to get going is never going to work.

I am running the docker container, actually with Podman on RHEL 9.2.
Before I added --network=host to the startup command, I was unable to ping/resolve hosts from CMD prompt.
Now this works fine.
However the application I am using under Wine appears that it cannot connect to the host it needs to at startup, it just times out. There is no specific error message, other than the application is unable to logon.

Am I missing something to enable the windows app to communicate via tcp/ip?
The program is called Wires-X.

I also tried running wine CMD and then starting the app from the command prompt but this yields the same results.
The program also has an online/offline status indicator and it always shows offline.
My assumption is that the program is show how being denied network access.

If I start with debugging enabled, I don't get any output past this:-

008c:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
008c:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
008c:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
008c:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
010c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 00D7F3B0, 00D7F420 00D7F3B8
010c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x409 00D7F3B0 00D7F420 00D7F3B8) returning a dummy value (current locale)
010c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 00D7F3B0, 00D7F420 00D7F3B8
010c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x409 00D7F3B0 00D7F420 00D7F3B8) returning a dummy value (current locale)
010c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 00D7F324, 00D7F394 00D7F32C
010c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x409 00D7F324 00D7F394 00D7F32C) returning a dummy value (current locale)
010c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 00D7F3B0, 00D7F420 00D7F3B8
010c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x409 00D7F3B0 00D7F420 00D7F3B8) returning a dummy value (current locale)
010c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 00D7F350, 00D7F3C0 00D7F358
010c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x409 00D7F350 00D7F3C0 00D7F358) returning a dummy value (current locale)
010c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 00D7EBE8, 00D7EC58 00D7EBF0
010c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x409 00D7EBE8 00D7EC58 00D7EBF0) returning a dummy value (current locale)
010c:fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation handle 00000000, info_class 1, info 00000000, size 0 stub!
010c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 00D7FA8C, 00D7FAFC 00D7FA94
010c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x409 00D7FA8C 00D7FAFC 00D7FA94) returning a dummy value (current locale)
010c:fixme:imm:ImeSetActiveContext (00010058, 1): stub
010c:fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (00010064, 00010058): stub
0048:fixme:imm:ImeSetActiveContext (0000000000010026, 0): stub
0048:fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0000000000010020, 0000000000010026): stub
010c:fixme:comm:set_queue_size insize 16384 outsize 8192 unimplemented stub
0118:fixme:win:AnimateWindow partial stub
010c:fixme:file:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
010c:fixme:uxtheme:BufferedPaintInit Stub ()
010c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000034, 00D7F2E0, 00D7F350 00D7F2E8
010c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x34 0x409 00D7F2E0 00D7F350 00D7F2E8) returning a dummy value (current locale)

Any ideas very welcome.
Thanks