[Gordon J. Rattray]

Hi there,

I can't get a full response to pinging anywhere on the 'net.

When I do a "ping www.yahoo.com" for example it will return the IP address
of Yahoo and reply TTL on the first of 4 lines, but the following 3 gets
time outs.

I can't go anywhere on the web with that machine, so any ideas of how to fix
that one?

I've turned the firewall off just in case.

Thanks,

Gordon

[David Candy]

What makes you think they answer pings. Microsoft won't. It's a way of doing a denial of service attacks by making the server so busy answering pings it doesn't get to do whatever it's supposed to.

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"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:epckTzxgFHA.576@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hi there,
>
> I can't get a full response to pinging anywhere on the 'net.
>
> When I do a "ping www.yahoo.com" for example it will return the IP address
> of Yahoo and reply TTL on the first of 4 lines, but the following 3 gets
> time outs.
>
> I can't go anywhere on the web with that machine, so any ideas of how to fix
> that one?
>
> I've turned the firewall off just in case.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
>
>
>

[uggabugga]

See if some other internet based program has access. Like CuteFTP or AOL
Instant Messenger. If they do then Internet Explorer itself could be
corrupted or you might have spyware.
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That's just like my opinion, Man........


"Gordon J. Rattray" wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I can't get a full response to pinging anywhere on the 'net.
>
> When I do a "ping www.yahoo.com" for example it will return the IP address
> of Yahoo and reply TTL on the first of 4 lines, but the following 3 gets
> time outs.
>
> I can't go anywhere on the web with that machine, so any ideas of how to fix
> that one?
>
> I've turned the firewall off just in case.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
>
>
>
>