Why can't I ping a PC on my home network?
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Published on 2010-12-24T23:37:34Z
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Whenever I try to ping another box on my home network, it pings the wrong ip address:
C:\Users\Papa>ping macmini
Pinging macmini.belkin [208.68.143.55] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.68.143.55: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=110
As you can see it always appends belkin to anything I try to ping. So I hit up ipconfig and belkin happens to be Connection-specific DNS Suffix:
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : belkin
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.7
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
My setup is all DHCP, so I am not sure where belkin is coming from. I looked through all the networking stuff, as you can see below:
Bottom line: how do I fix this?
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