Pinging [oy] with 32 bytes of data:

by frank on May 20, 2007

in General, Web Development, Windows Server

Where the “oy” have weird little French double dot things on the top of them. You can still ping by IP address but DNS and a whole lot of other stuff is poked.

Even a repair install didn’t fix this! I was beside myself until uncovering a little documented command.

netsh winsock reset

and then reboot the computer.

Fixed it up a treat. Apparently viruses and the removal of program’s like Norton’s and CA Anti virus can cause corruption in the winsock components of XP and the result is busted networking. Running this command will reset the whole winsock subsystem.

Another handy one that has helped me out in a few situations like this is netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt Do it from a command line and have a look at the log, it does lots of cool stuff that can fix a huge amount of problems with windows networking.

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  • phoenix

    To John,
    OMG…thank you for posting this…I was trying everything. Found some good info on the Microsoft experts site but no fix. This little command fixed the issue in less time that it took me to type this comment. Thanks agian.

    “netsh winsock reset”

  • Rich

    Thank you so much for posting this! Wouldn’t it be nice if my initial searches had let me to that on M$ site. I had the same issue as listed, after uninstalling an anti-virus program and Windows greeted me with this issue.

    Thanks!!!

  • Edward

    You are the man! Holy-moly I tried everything to figure out what the heck was going on! Even went so far as to buy a new wireless access point thinking it was something busted with my hardware! You totally saved me!

    Thank you thank you thank you!!!

    -Edward

  • Thanga

    I encountered this wierd ping problem with (oy) two days back.Same symptons as documented above, no network connectivity. Before I got this link I tried all otherways unintsalling/installing network drivers, protocol, XP xhexkpoint restore, repair but all these method didn’t work.

    Thank you very much for posting this magic command “netsh winsock reset”

    Regards /Thanga

  • hakeem

    Thank you very much…because of you i can fix my network connection… :)

  • Craig

    You are a god!

  • J

    I love you! This may have saved my relationship!

  • Paul

    YAAAAHOOOOOO!

    This was driving me bonkers!! I had an older PC where I had to remove a busted version of McAfee. Iin my case, McAfee would not uninstall using Add/Remove Programs, so I had to use the MCPR2.EXE tool found on McAfee’s support site… it removes the McAfee Security Suite program(s), and registry entries, but it breaks the winsock components, which broke the network settings. The TICKET to knowing this (corrupted winsock) is the issue is the french? looking ‘oy’ symbol when you try to ping something.. Thank GOD I found this page. Oddly, I saw various web postings regarding a ‘corrupted winsock’, but none referenced the ‘oy’ with the two dots above the y. Thanks a mill. Hope this helps others.

  • Paul

    Correction on above – Where it says “which broke the network settings”… that should say “which broke the network connectivity.” I don’t think any of the network settings on the card are altered… just the winsock.

  • matt

    OMFG – U legend -

    u should work for Microsoft except they would slow u down :P

    thanks for posting

  • Mike

    EXCELLENT. YOU ARE THE MAN.

    I have been working on this issue for about 7 hours and that command fixed all my problems. Thanks!!!

  • Simo

    This has saved me so much grief. Thought a complete reformat was the only answer. Thanks again.

  • Matt

    Thanks I’m halfway there now if I can just get it to renew the ip address!!

  • john

    I assume you have tried :

    ipconfig /release *
    ipconfiog /renew *

    Cheers, John.

  • john

    ipconfig /renew * even.

  • http://www.effingham.net Ross

    Thanks man. I have seen this once before and could not remember. 2 machines in a buiness network and I had been treading water for 2 hours… thanks for your post.

  • unstableflame

    Impressive piece of knowledge you pulled out of your @#!.

    Your the man.

  • Matt

    Brilliant. Thank you very much!

  • Erik

    Frank, amazing it worked… Searched a full night to find the solution and was happy I found it on your internet site.

    Thnx

  • daazza

    Your a legand thanks

  • Michael

    Thank you very much. Much appreciated.

  • kevin

    much appreciated
    thanks!

  • munish

    good job….you are a genius man…

  • deep

    i love this site. for two week i was stuggling with this issue. once found your site, it took only less then second. good on you.

  • dj

    <3

  • Beerinder

    I love you

  • formerAdmin

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

  • http://www.bluush.com Steve H

    thanks a bundle, this worked a treat.

  • nj

    Man – thanks so much for this. I was just about to blow away a laptop before this.

  • shaun

    I wish this was easier to find. But luckiy it was! just need to remember to share this on the other sites!

    Thanks, your a life saver!

  • http://asdas.com dsad

    i love u u r god

  • kamal.powercomputer

    Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks

  • Ram_I_AM

    you rock!!!!

  • hepea.kpu

    Thanks man. Great job posting this here !

  • http://rossnotes.com Ross M Karchner

    Saved the day, thank you!

  • Phil

    Well done indeed, tried all sorts!
    Was nearly the last time I fix someone elses computer until I googled and found this, thanks again!

  • NotGuru

    Thank you, Thank you, 1000 times!
    I too, was 1 minute away from blowing this laptop, after spending 4 hours of troubleshooting when I found this fix.

    Thanks!

  • Brian

    Worked great thanks!

  • Vishnu

    Hi, everyone.

    I am having trouble with connecting a PC to my home network. I have two other PCs connected to a router via DHCP, and they work fine. I’ve tried to connect a third PC with an onboard RTL8139 network adapter, and it just won’t work. I get a “limited or no connectivity” error.
    It tries to connect to the network, but for some reason it can’t find a proper IP, subnet mask and DNS, as they’re configured in the router. I’ve tried manually setting those to the correct values, and Windows says I’m connected to the network, while pinging it gives the oy message with replies, but doesnt work. tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers for realtek adapter, netsh winsock reset, netsh int ip reset reset.log, nothing worked, any suggestions?

    Vishnu