unusual response from PING

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Carl Hilton

OK, when I ping a computer, (XPSP2) host, my return says:

"Pinging (garbage characters) with 32 bytes of data:"

The rest of the output looks fine.
 
Additional info,

My network drives map fine and I can access them.
I can ping my DNS servers (with the problem noted below) but I can NOT
resolve anything, therefore my iexplorer does not browse.
 
More info.. running NETDIAG gives this error:

The procedure entry point DnsNetworkInformation_CreateFromAZ could not be
located in the dynamic link library DNSAPI.DLL.

and NETDIAG does NOT run.
 
Go to a command prompt and run ipconfig /displaydns.
See what comes up in your PTR records...
 
Fix

I had the same problem around the same time and have just be able to fix it by resetting the Winsock settings using the netsh utility. (From the CMD prompt type netsh Winsock reset) Note: I had also reset the IP stack using the same utility. While this did not fix the problem it might have contributed to the solution once the above Winsock reset was performed.
 
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