> The error is PuTTY's translation of the Windows error code WSAENETDOWN,
> which might be a better Google search term.
>
> Microsoft document this error as follows:
>
> WSAENETDOWN 10050
> Network is down.
> A socket operation encountered a dead network. This could indicate a
> serious failure of the network system (that is, the protocol stack
> that the Windows Sockets DLL runs over), the network interface, or
> the local network itself.

Fully agreed - the source itself shows that. The thing is I don't see
how - The machine is connected to a LAN which has a gateway onto the
WAN. It has perfectly good network connectivity it being able to browse
the web, ping people, ssh (using putty itself), do things with TCP and
UDP - Thats whats so confusing.

Could it be that the machine has more then one network connection
(which it does) that the other network conenctions are down (which they
are) and plink is trying to use the wrong network connection. I dont
understand why it would, or even how to control that ability?

JT