Tweaked a few more things and seems to be working now. I'm including the stats you wanted to see if there's anything weird going on anway:
Actually, this host is my laptop:
cat /etc/hosts
192.168.0.6
Not sure why the main comp or 192.168.0.1 is not there
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:ED:CF:EF
inet addr:192.168.0.254 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:bfff:feed:cfef/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1084 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:499018 (487.3 Kb) TX bytes:192199 (187.6 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:7003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9270434 (8.8 Mb) TX bytes:9270434 (8.8 Mb)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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nameserver 192.168.0.4
nameserver 205.XXX.X.XX
nameserver 192.168.0.1