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

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:12 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Put a real ip adress in your mythtv-setup for the backend. And restart
>> the backend.
>
> By real IP address, do you mean the IP address that the router assigns
> to backend?  I will try that.  But still, would this have any effect
> on the netstat command I posted before?

A bad setting in the ip address could (I did not read the code) cause
the backend to not listen on any port but most likely it would log
that in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log

John