[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend problem...

[Krzysztof Adamski]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 15:36 -0400, Questiony McAskerton From Queryville
wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 
> > On 04/05/2009 03:14 PM, Questiony McAskerton From Queryville wrote:
> >> Just for kicks I tried using the IP address of mythserver in ``General 
> >> Settings'' in mythtv-setup on mythserver and, to my pleasent surprise, it 
> >> works!
> >
> > You mean in the setting where the text states:
> >
> > IP address
> > Enter the IP address of this machine.  Use an externally accessible address 
> > (ie, not 127.0.0.1) if you are going to be running a frontend on a different 
> > machine than this one.
> >
> > and/or (talking about the master backend):
> >
> > IP address
> > The IP address of the master backend server. All frontend and non-master 
> > backend machines will connect to this server.  If you only have one backend, 
> > this should be the same IP address as above.
> >
> >
> > i.e. where the word "hostname" is never used (because hostname resolution 
> > isn't supported).
> >
> 
> Fair enough, though it's not a crazy leap to assume a resolvable hostname 
> may be used in place of an IP address; it's a wrong assumption in this 
> case, as it turns out, but not an unreasonable one. ;)
> 
> Hopefully this discussion will help others who have made the same mistake.

I use a FQDN for the myth backend and I don't have any problems on my
frontends.

Hardcoding of IP addresses in configuration files is never a good idea,
this is why DNS was invented.

K