Mongodb: failed to connect to server on first connect

Question

I get the following error:

Warning { MongoError: failed to connect to server [mongodb:27017] on first connect
    at Pool. (/Users/michaelks         


        

Answer 1

While connected to a wifi network, mongodb://localhost/db_name worked as expected.

When I wasn't connected to any wifi network, this couldn't work. Instead I used, mongodb://127.0.0.1/db_name and it worked.

Probably a problem to do with ip configurations.