[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend can't ping database host

Tim Phipps phipps-hutton at sky.com
Tue Dec 25 15:54:06 UTC 2012


Quoting Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com>:
> Cannot find (ping) database host 192.168.1.101 on the network

That's because 192.168.1.101 is not a host name it's an IPv4 address.  
Try using the hostname instead. I had the same problem when I moved a  
lot of stuff to IPv6: mythbackend will only ping an IPv4 resolvable  
hostname and I didn't have an IPv4 address for my database.

Cheers,
Tim.




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