thanks for your reply! I tried pinging both local hosts. Pinging 192.168.109 worked. when I tried to ping 0.0.0.0, I got a "general failure" error. I so think you are right, this is a network/connection related issue. I got the same error with the firewall on and off.
I'm not sure if this information will help, but I created a new user account on the same computer, and was able to successfully get the wallet to sync. So perhaps the problem may be in a setting that is on the other account, preventing the wallet from syncing?
I found the on wikiepdia when searching "what is 0.0.0.0?":
In the Internet Protocol Version 4, the address 0.0.0.0 is a non-routable meta-address used to designate an invalid, unknown or non-applicable target. This address is assigned specific meanings in a number of contexts, such as on clients or on servers.
In the context of servers, 0.0.0.0 can mean "all IPv4 addresses on the local machine". If a host has two IP addresses, 192.168.1.1 and 10.1.2.1, and a server running on the host is configured to listen on 0.0.0.0, it will be reachable at both of those IP addresses.
here is the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.0.0.0As I'm sure you can tell, I'm not very well versed in troubleshooting these kinds of problems. What next would you suggest in trying to find out what the cause of 0.0.0.0 is and how to remove it?
thanks again for your reply!