[mythtv-users] does 0.21 frontend require ping to succeed?

[Paul Bender]

Arthur Blake wrote:
> I've been running MythTV for quite awhile on version 0.20 (mythbuntu 7.1)
> 
> I upgraded to 0.21 recently and it's still working great.
> 
> however, I occasionally connect from a front end that is inside a
> virtual machine (VirtualBox.)
> 
> The networking in the virtual machine uses a virtual network interface
> that uses NAT and thus it can't ping ...
> 
> This wasn't a problem in 0.20... but now with 0.21,  the front end
> complains at startup that it "Cannot find (ping) database host on the
> network" and it asks me for the configuration information again
> without letting me get past that stage...  Is there any way to just
> make the front end try and connect without pinging first?
> 
> Much Obliged
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By default it uses ping.

Try setting

DBHostPing=no

in your configuration file.