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20  05 2007

Pinging [oy] with 32 bytes of data:

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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24 Responses to “Pinging [oy] with 32 bytes of data:”

  1. phoenix, Said:
    on June 1st, 2007 at 4:53 am


    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”

  2. Rich, Said:
    on June 4th, 2007 at 8:39 pm


    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!!!

  3. Edward, Said:
    on June 25th, 2007 at 2:17 am


    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

  4. Thanga, Said:
    on June 29th, 2007 at 10:13 am


    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

  5. hakeem, Said:
    on July 6th, 2007 at 12:33 pm


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

  6. Craig, Said:
    on July 18th, 2007 at 6:23 pm


    You are a god!

  7. J, Said:
    on August 17th, 2007 at 8:49 am


    I love you! This may have saved my relationship!

  8. Paul, Said:
    on August 17th, 2007 at 8:18 pm


    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.

  9. Paul, Said:
    on August 17th, 2007 at 8:26 pm


    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.

  10. matt, Said:
    on October 3rd, 2007 at 6:30 am


    OMFG - U legend -

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

    thanks for posting

  11. Mike, Said:
    on November 6th, 2007 at 9:04 pm


    EXCELLENT. YOU ARE THE MAN.

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

  12. Simo, Said:
    on November 25th, 2007 at 8:02 pm


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

  13. Matt, Said:
    on December 5th, 2007 at 2:10 am


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

  14. john, Said:
    on December 5th, 2007 at 9:05 pm


    I assume you have tried :

    ipconfig /release *
    ipconfiog /renew *

    Cheers, John.

  15. john, Said:
    on December 5th, 2007 at 9:05 pm


    ipconfig /renew * even.

  16. Ross, Said:
    on December 5th, 2007 at 9:59 pm


    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.

  17. unstableflame, Said:
    on February 1st, 2008 at 6:42 am


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

    Your the man.

  18. Matt, Said:
    on February 24th, 2008 at 2:53 pm


    Brilliant. Thank you very much!

  19. Erik, Said:
    on April 11th, 2008 at 10:16 pm


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

    Thnx

  20. daazza, Said:
    on April 28th, 2008 at 12:05 pm


    Your a legand thanks

  21. Michael, Said:
    on May 10th, 2008 at 9:21 am


    Thank you very much. Much appreciated.

  22. kevin, Said:
    on August 13th, 2008 at 2:37 pm


    much appreciated
    thanks!

  23. munish, Said:
    on September 28th, 2008 at 1:05 pm


    good job….you are a genius man…

  24. deep, Said:
    on November 16th, 2008 at 9:06 am


    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.

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