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September 12, 2008 at 11:55 AM
drexal

Can’t ping myself through university LAN, but can through home LAN. Help!

by drexal . Updated 17 years, 10 months ago

As soon as I had the hldrrr.exe virus my remote desktop to my dorm computer going through my university’s LAN disconnected. I have dual NICs, one connected directly to the university’s LAN and another connected to an ISP. I then VPNed into my home router through the ISP and Remote Desktopped into the computer that way, but even after removing the virus and all trojans I still can’t access to that computer through the university’s LAN. I can ping from all other computers to each other and I can ping from the affected computer to all others, but none of my computers can ping the affected computer through the university’s network. However, the odd thing is that I can ping that computer if the pinging computer is within my home network: 192.168.1.XXX. Interestingly with tracert from another computer in the school I can ping any of my computers on the same switch as the affected computer in my dorm, but when pinging the one affected computer it gets to the server like pinging any of the others, but stalls at the affected computer’s specific IP. My guess is that somehow although the server knows that the affected computer is there, that computer refuses to communicate in response to requests. Does anyone know what this is or how to fix it? Thank you so much if you can help!!

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