Welcome back, Rafael!  It was nice bumping into you on campus.

ITS disabled ping for many contexts.  (As a security measure, it seemed to them.)  Usually you can ping a computer or printer in the same school.  But definitely not the building's main switch / router / gateway (the *.1 ip) ITSELF.  What will pass thru (within cps but across-school) is indeed odd, and I would *expect* ping to work but not sure.  RDC definitely works across schools; MS file sharing usually does not, but very oddly *did* work at the SOE once last year when I tried it. 

 But the matter of what is "same school" or "same building" is, just as you suggest, something of a vexed question at South Sore. If you can document what you're finding, that would be excellent basis for a report/inquiry to ITS, via the school personnel.

Thanks, 

==mitch

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