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My Winsock 32 DLL file keeps performing illegal operations on the Win95 machine running WinGate. Why?

April 26, 2017DLL file illegal Machine operations Performing Win95 Winsock

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My Winsock 32 DLL file keeps performing illegal operations on the Win95 machine running WinGate. Why?

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These Illegal operations that are occurring in your Winsock 32 can be caused by a couple of different things. One, your Winsock DLL file may be corrupt, or bad. The solution here is to take a copy of the DLL file from another machine on your network and overwrite the file on your WinGate machine with it. The other cause is not quite so simple, but is just as easily fixed. It has to do with problems at your ISP. We have seen many cases where simple problems at an ISP have caused WinGate to crash. These problems can range from modems that don’t answer to bad DNS servers. In this case, the latter is likely the cause here. Try changing the DNS servers in your WinGate machine’s DNS server search order to the following: Primary DNS: 198.109.118.94 Secondary DNS: 198.109.118.67 These are known good DNS servers, and have fixed this crashing problem in several instances.