Bonjour computer may be unreachable

I have 5 imacs in my office and we use ichat (text) to communicate. Whenever any of the computers try to send a message to one particular computer we get a "Bonjour connection error. The computer may be unreachable." The computers name shows up in the bonjour list. Other computers can receive messages from this computers. A few of the computers will attempt to send messages to this computer and never receive the error message, but the instant message still does not go through.

Make sure the other computer is on the Same LAN and in fact the same Subnet of a LAN if there are subnets.
Subnets are created when you use a second routing device and have one or more computers each side of it.
EXAMPLE
Routing modem <-> Computers and a router with that router <-> more computers.
The? "more computers" will not see the first "computers" as in the same Subnet.
8:57 PM Wednesday; July 30, 2008

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