Ping returning strange characters for the IP address

[MickW]

I have one PC on my home network (ADSL router/modem with two PCs pls my

work laptop) that has lost connectivity. The main symptom seems to be
that a ping command returns strange characters between the square
brackets where the dotted decimal IP address should be. There are
normally two characters. It looks as if it has a wrong character set
or
is binary rather than ASCII text or something similar.

I have tried everything that I can think of without much success.
Using
another PC on the same ethernet cable works fine so it's clearly the
one
PC (Win XP Home). I don't know what has changed since it worked
previously. I have run various scans and registry cleans. I have
tried
with the firewall off. I have run the following commands after many
searches but none of these fix it.

netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh int ip reset ....
netsh interface ip delete arpcache

The other really odd symptom is that the ping command makes a noise!
It
sounds like a sort of squeak from the PC speaker (not the speakers via
the sound card - the system speaker). Weird.

Any advice please?

 

[Chuck]

I have one PC on my home network (ADSL router/modem with two PCs pls my

work laptop) that has lost connectivity. The main symptom seems to be
that a ping command returns strange characters between the square
brackets where the dotted decimal IP address should be. There are
normally two characters. It looks as if it has a wrong character set
or
is binary rather than ASCII text or something similar.

I have tried everything that I can think of without much success.
Using
another PC on the same ethernet cable works fine so it's clearly the
one
PC (Win XP Home). I don't know what has changed since it worked
previously. I have run various scans and registry cleans. I have
tried
with the firewall off. I have run the following commands after many
searches but none of these fix it.

netsh winsock reset catalog
netsh int ip reset ....
netsh interface ip delete arpcache

The other really odd symptom is that the ping command makes a noise!
It
sounds like a sort of squeak from the PC speaker (not the speakers via
the sound card - the system speaker). Weird.

Any advice please?

Is the name total garbage, or is it hexadecimal, like "fec0:0:0:ffff::"?

If the former, keep working on the LSP / Winsock issue. But be persistent.
"netsh winsock reset catalog" isn't the only fix needed, or useful here!
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html

If the latter, check your "ipconfig /all" for IPV6.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/reading-ipconfig-and-diagnosing.html#IPV6>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/reading-ipconfig-and-diagnosing.html#IPV6

 

[MickW]

Genius, Thanks Chuck. Lspfix sorted it for me. Problem with
CyberSitter, a filtering program. Thank you! Mick

 

[Chuck]

Genius, Thanks Chuck. Lspfix sorted it for me. Problem with
CyberSitter, a filtering program. Thank you! Mick

Kewl. Thanks for the update, Mick!