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

[Fred Hamilton]

OK, I believe I have narrowed it down to an IP address / localhost issue.

The mythtv-status error message is:

> Couldn't communicate with 192.168.1.100 on port 6543:
>  IO::Socket::INET::MythTV: connect: Connection refused


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.


and

$ 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...


So localhost works and 192.168.1.100 (my PC's IP address) doesn't, even
though I thought they were equivalent.

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.

Can this be resolved more simply (maybe in /etc/hosts?)?
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