cannot ping myself under vista

[IPZ]

Greetings All,

I assigne machine name but my vista box does not ping itself ...

It will execute "ping localhost" but it does not ping (loopback) by machine
name.
How do I resolve this? tia

 

[Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)]

I will check the firewall first.

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[Wessel Troost]

I assigne machine name but my vista box does not ping itself ...Does it resolve to the proper IP address? (127.0.0.1)
Have you enabled the IP protocol for the adapter?
Did you manually install a network driver?
Are you running a virus scanner / firewall solution?

It will execute "ping localhost" but it does not ping (loopback) by machine
name.

Posting the output of the ping would help.

 

[Jrz]

Does it resolve to the proper IP address? (127.0.0.1)

here, I see that pinging my machine name resolves to the IPv6 internet
address (in the mixed notation)

when I have no internet connection, it resolves to ::1 (localhost)

 

[AJR]

"Localhost" is "myself" - are you confusisng "Computer description name" for
the computer's workgroup name?

 

[SapperSix]

All,

With Firewall on, I cannot ping my local machine by name. I can ping via
IPv4 (127.0.0.1) or my machine's IPv4 address obtained via DHCP
(192.168.x.x). I can also ping using 'ping localhost', which resolves to
::1:. Internet access works fine.

Three questions:

1) What specific firewall settings can I change without turning it off
completely?
2) Also, who does Windows return different IPv6 addresses depending on
whether the Firewall is turned on or not?
3) Finally, why does windows return an IPv6 address when IPv6 is not bound
to any network adapter on my Computer (btw, the did try binding IPv6 to all
adapters and received the same behavior, ping success with FW off, ping fail
with FW on.)

Thanks in advance for any help!

ping with Firewall turned on:
C:\Users\dhom>ping burgerbox

Pinging burgerbox [fe80::206f:21e4:3f57:f79b%13] from
fe80::206f:21e4:3f57:f79b%
13 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for fe80::206f:21e4:3f57:f79b%13:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

ping with Firewall turned off:
C:\Users\dhom>ping burgerbox

Pinging burgerbox [fe80::5efe:192.168.8.100%25] from
fe80::5efe:192.168.8.100%25
with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from fe80::5efe:192.168.8.100%25: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::5efe:192.168.8.100%25: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::5efe:192.168.8.100%25: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::5efe:192.168.8.100%25: time<1ms

Ping statistics for fe80::5efe:192.168.8.100%25:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms