[JohnGilb]

I concur - throughout the season, while using MDNS, I have seen situations where one or more of the below things working while the others don't:
- Ping via CMD window
- Ping via Powershell window
- FRC Driver Station
- SmartDashboard
- SFX (SmartDashboard 2.0)
- Deploy code via Eclipse
- roboRIO web portal

It's really a mess. mDNS is great when it's working, but when it isn't, we have to just continuously reboot the robot/computer/disconnect & reconnect adapters/plug in a cable, then unplug it and wait 10 seconds/etc... and just hope that something will work.

Static IPs were inconvenient but relatively bulletproof - and in the world of FRC robotics I often value robustness over feature richness.