[mythtv-users] combined frontend/master backend can't connect to master backend server

[Gabe Rubin]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Christopher Kerr
<mythtv at theseekerr.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is the backend listening on 127.0.0.1?
>>>
>>
>> Even though things seemed to work this AM, when I got back home today,
>> things are back to the frontend unable to connect.  I did netstat
>> -tunap |grep 6543 and I am not getting any result for that, so it
>> looks like mythbackend is not listening.  What to do now?
>
> Regardless of what has worked for you in the past, USE A SUPPORTED
> CONFIGURATION, ie. set up your IP addresses (not hostnames, IP
> adresses!) properly.
>
Isn't the bigger issue that the backend does not appear to allow
connections to port 6543 as demonstrated by my netstat command?  Why
is that happening?