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I suspect your name resolution between hosts is not set up properly.

In particular, I suspect the hostname advertised by computer 2 does not resolve on computer 1.

To confirm this, you can start the nodes on both computers (order doesn't matter), and then try to run rosnode ping /node_B on computer 1.

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