Trouble connecting to Mongo Server using Mongo Shell

Question

I ampretty new to Mongo shell and I am trying to switch the server using shell. My current server is of course localhost. I am trying to connect to someserver and the command that I am using for this is basically

mongodb://someserver

I also tries

mongodb://someserver:27017

in both cases my command is followed by ... and then it does nothing. I am still on localhost.

Please note that there are no credential required on someserver.

Answer 1

You can't directly switch to a different connection from the mongo shell prompt. You can open additional connections though as:

var somedb = connect('someserver/somedb');

To start over with a new mongo server, at the command shell prompt:

mongo someserver/somedb

Answer 2

Can you telnet to that host and port combo? When I have problems, that's the first thing I do to make sure I can see that service, at the very least.