My xp machine will not resolve dns by ping or IE, I have tried to flush dns, ipconfig/release renew and reset the tcp/ip stack by using the netsh int ip rest command.
resolves ok by nslookup.
I think the machine has a virus as it has blue screen several times, when i ran wireshark no packet were leaving the network card. I am going to rebuild the machine.
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