Windows 10: Help - Virgin media users in UK Ping returning weird message

Hi there
Am in London this weekend at a friend's house. Using Virginmedia as ISP.

Trying to reach a local computer redsquirrel

Ping via IP address fine

Ping via name :

[jim@gudmundur ~]$ ping Redsquirrel
PING Redsquirrel weird Ip address 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from advancedsearch.virginmedia.com (weird IP address): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=12.6 ms

Any ideas ??

ping should return 192.168.x.x

Cheers
jimbo

:)

 

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I'm a UK resident with Virgin Media and any help would be received gratefully, thank you in advance.

 

I do not suppose, your friend uses a custom DNS? Virgin does DNS Hijacking, like most UK's providers (all).

https://help.virginmedia.com/system/...k-error-search

 

DNS isn't used on local network as there is no DNS server local names use NetBIOS but ping thinks your pinging a internet PC and using DNS

 

Try ping pcname -4
Forces IPv4 otherwise it appears to default to IPv6 and curiously here is giving the address I'm pinging from and not the PC I'm pinging.
-4 gets the correct one with the IP address.