Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: > I run 'whois' on a variety of domains and they all report back. I still > think the fact that my browser Firefox, as well as IE, can't get out to the > web has to do with some setting on my box, since whois, ping and several > other tools work, successfully communicating with the 'net. > > scott > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > Hmmm. Often, the reason why the network stack get b0rked is because there is a piece of malware somewhere in the machine that is breaking things. That command will reset the TCP/IP stack but if you still have a some bad software on there, it is just going to keep breaking. It might take a combination of doing virus/spyware/malware checks with this command to make things stable again.
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