[mythtv-users] Unable to connect to the master backend at 192.168.1.100:6543 (16.04 & 0.28)

[Marlon Buchanan]

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> From: Fred Hamilton <fred at yonkitime.com>
>To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> 
>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 2:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Unable to connect to the master backend at 192.168.1.100:6543 (16.04 & 0.28)
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>OK, I believe I have narrowed it down to an IP address / localhost issue.
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>The mythtv-status error message is:
>Couldn't communicate with 192.168.1.100 on port 6543:  IO::Socket::INET::MythTV: connect: Connection refused
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>So I did these two tests:
>$ wget 192.168.1.100:6543
>>--2016-04-15 14:40:56--  http://192.168.1.100:6543/
>>Connecting to 192.168.1.100:6543... failed: Connection refused.
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>$ wget localhost:6543
>>--2016-04-15 14:41:43--  http://localhost:6543/
>>Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.100
>>Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:6543... connected.
>>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
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>So localhost works and 192.168.1.100 (my PC's IP address) doesn't, even though I thought they were equivalent.
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>Normally I'd start changing "localhost" to "192.168.1.100" (or vice versa) everywhere I can, but I've decided it might be wiser to try to get the advice of someone who knew what they were doing.
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>Can this be resolved more simply (maybe in /etc/hosts?)?
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Perhaps a bind-address problem in /etc/mysql/my.cnf? Is that set to localhost?