Thread: Can connect to the roboRIO by IP but not by hostname
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Re: Can connect to the roboRIO by IP but not by hostname
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Originally Posted by SuperBK View Post
Can you ping the roborio by host name? Does it display the correct IP when you ping? You might try ipconfig /flushdns (from a prompt) to clear any cached names.

Has anyone by chance modified the hosts file by adding the host name to it?

We switched to static addresses this year, added its name to the hosts file and connected at our first district competition just fine. We set to roboRio to .2 and the driver station to .5 Note that the driver's station must have a mask of 255.0.0.0. Also, I believe we did turn off IPv6 on the DS. I haven't heard about needing it. Maybe Greg McKaskle could comment on that.

The other tip that keeps coming up is plugging the roborio into the connector on the radio closest to the power plug.

Brian
We are not able to ping by hostname, although we can ping by IP.
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