Ping error sendmsg invalid

[Colin Law]

On 30 May 2016 at 15:25, Amer <amer7777 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
> Unfortunately, I am facing a strange ping error.
> When I ping www.google.com
> It is OK
> However, when I ping any numerical IP such as 127.0.0.1 I
> I got the following error
> Ping sendmsg: invalid argument
> I tried to use /bin/ping xxxxxxx
> But, I got same error.

Can you copy/paste the failing command and results from the terminal
please?  To copy from the terminal use Ctrl+Shift+C.  Try copying this
from here and pasting into the terminal (Ctrl+Shift+V to paste to
terminal).
ping 212.56.71.108

Colin