Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian
No joy. From the laptop, I can ping 192.168.0.1 and b (which is the IP my desktop presents to the outside world), but neither c nor d. Strangely enough, the desktop can't ping c or d either, even though they're listed as its DNS servers, and even though the desktop has no problems connecting to the internet.
Not necessarily strange - they may simply not accept ICMP packets, only DNS queries.