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Sounds like your network setup is not quite correct. Make sure you have set ROS_MASTER_URI and either ROS_IP or ROS_HOSTNAME. From the description of your problem (communication in one direction only) it sounds like you have not done the latter correctly. See EnvironmentVariables.

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