[mythtv-users] Changing the IP of a backend

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/9/2013 11:36 AM, Andréas Kühne wrote:
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> 2013/6/9 Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com <mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>>
>
>     On 6/8/2013 5:54 PM, Andréas Kühne wrote:
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>         Yeah, no I am not running any frontends with localhost or 127.0.0.1.
>         However thanks for the info anyway. It doesn't seem that hard to
>         do, I
>         just have to change the backend settings on all of my frontends :-)
>
>
>     Your frontends don't have backend settings, they only have database
>     settings. They store the location of the database in config.xml, and
>     the frontend queries the database to figure out where the backend
>     is. You only need to change the Backend and Master IPs in
>     mythtv-setup on your master backend.
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> Yeah that was what I meant. I had to change the ip address in the
> database settings file. Have now changed it to a DNS name, so it should
> be an issue in the future. Have changed all but one of my computers as
> well, and it is now working perfectly. Thanks for the advice!

Note that the database address does support a resolvable name, but the 
backend address must be an IP.