{"id":613,"date":"2011-03-04T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=613"},"modified":"2011-03-04T18:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:57:57","slug":"windows-7s-route-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2011\/03\/windows-7s-route-to-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7&#039;s Route To Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon updating Windows 7 for the first time in a while and rebooting, I was soon horrified to discover that I was unable to connect to any remote hosts over the internet. Miffed, I immediately performed a System Restore but no connectivity was regained.<\/p>\n<p>Looking a bit deeper, I soon realised that I could reach my router&#039;s configuration webpage and other machines on my local network, so quickly suspected a routing issue. I also noted that Windows thought I had two &#034;networks&#034;, one my &#034;Home Network&#034; and one an &#034;Unidentified Network&#034;. With only one NIC installed, I found this odd. I tried to use the options given to delete one of the two, but one seemed to be a bit of a ghost, with no real presence other than in that window.<\/p>\n<p>With help from Steve Hathaway&#039;s answer to <a href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/w7itpronetworking\/thread\/3f8999b6-495d-4065-9825-2271b4c898f6\">this thread<\/a>, I found the answer: a phantom persistent route left in place by Windows pointing to 0.0.0.0 for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n<p>Within an elevated command prompt, I ran <code>ROUTE DELETE 0.0.0.0<\/code> to delete the phantom route, then <code>IPCONFIG \/RENEWALL<\/code> to regain the proper route information. And then everything was fine.<\/p>\n<p>Watch out for this one.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bootnote<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Regarding this post&#039;s title, yes I <i>know<\/i> that 0.0.0.0 isn&#039;t an address to &#034;nowhere&#034;. I thought it was an apt title anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon updating Windows 7 for the first time in a while and rebooting, I was soon horrified to discover that I was unable to connect to any remote hosts over the internet. Let&#039;s find out why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12,41,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}