Destination host unreachable

[UTTech]

I am running Windows 98 2nd Edition, IE 6.0 on Microsoft network. All of the sudden, my internet stopped working. I am connected to a network with DSL. All the network settings are correct. I tried to ping outside of my network and I get " Destination host unreachable " but I can ping the servers and the routers fine. Please help! Janny
Network Administrator
jcha@ArkionLS.com

 

[paulwood]

Is this just one workstation or all of them. If just one then it sounds like the permissions have been changed/corrupted. If all of them, then maybe RRAS is messed up. Do you have a proxy and or firewall?

 

[UTTech]

It's just the one workstation. I extracted wsock32.dll file and it started working. Unfortunately, it also froze so had to reboot. It stopped working after that.

I don't want to reformat the hard drive and reinstall but I'm thinking that's my only choice? Janny
Network Administrator
jcha@ArkionLS.com

 

[paulwood]

Before the ultimate sanction, have you tried repairing IE6? Go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs double-click Internet Explorer etc and select repair. See if that does it. I know strictly speaking that shouldn't make any difference, but it's got to be worth a try since it installs upgrades to many system files!

Otherwise the tcp/ip may well be messed up, the only way I'm aware of to completely get rid of tcp/ip and reinstall requires DUN to be removed and reinstalled as well

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q181/5/99.ASP

You might want to consider removing the protocol and rebinding it in Network Properties if the above article doesn't seem helpful.

 

[UTTech]

Thanks for your response.

I tried repairing IE6 but no luck again.

I followed the article and still no luck.

Janny
Network Administrator
jcha@ArkionLS.com

 

[UTTech]

Routing table was messed up. It is working again. Thanks for your help! Janny
Network Administrator
jcha@ArkionLS.com

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi Janny and Paulwood,

I've similar problem and yet to find a solution. The problem is in one system in the network. Surprising when I ping the server from the problematic machine it returns the ip address of the machine itself !

Any help appreciated

ITmania

 

[Guest_imported]

Destination Host Unreachable -- ARP entry issue. Waiting for a while and access again.