Diablo II: LOD/DNS error?

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Ross T.

Last week, I was playing Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
across my home network, two Win2k Pro computers, Linksys
router, Netgear printserver. Everything worked fine up
until a day or two ago. Now, when I try to play a network
game of Diablo II, the game errors out with the follow
notice:

Halt
Location: D2Net\SRC\Client.app, line #108
Expression: Socket

When I click on that window, it closes, the game closes
and I get this notice:

Unhandled Exception:
Access_Violation (c0000005)

Now, here's the kicker and why I'm on a Windows Support
board: I think it has something to do with TCP/IP and not
the game.

Both of my computers have a manually set IP address,
subnet mask, gateway and DNS servers. The DNS servers are
the same. The computer I'm using to write this post
obviously doesn't have the same problem. ^^

On the problem computer, I can see the other elements
(computers, printserver) in the network in Network
Neighborhood. I can access the elements in Network
Neighborhood, copy files, etc. I can ping elements within
the network AND computers outside the network i.e. on the
Internet.

BUT, in addition to the error that I receive for Diablo
II, I can't call up anything in Internet Explorer. If I
use a domain name (www.duxcw.com) or the IP address
(216.92.56.121) I still get the same error page. Also, I
can't call up my router page in the browser either. Other
than these two things, everything works fine.

Last bits of info:
**I can't telnet.

**When I run tracert on an Internet computer (a battle.net
server) I get an "unable to resolve target system" error.

**When I run nslookup, I get an error that says that
nslookup could not resolve names for my DNS servers.

**This is all in addition to all of the standard hardware
troubleshooting, like checking the cable, router, NIC,
etc. Everything else seems to check out just fine.

**I've checked Blizzard (maker of the game) and their
support site is pretty useless as far as this particular
problem goes.

As you can see, I've tried everything I know and I'm
coming up empty. Aside from the frustration of
having "random" errors in windows (of which I have had
very few since upgrading to Windows 2000 Professional)
such that something that worked a few days ago no longer
works, I can't satiate my renewed habit of Diablo II
network play with my wife.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ross T.
 
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