InfluxDB setup issue

I am having some trouble with a new setup of InfluxDB running on a remote server.

I have setup Influx on a remote nix vm, and created the database home_assistant. My configuration files are as follows

influxdb: !include homeassistant/influxdb/influxdb.yaml
host: monitor1
port: 8086
database: home_assistant

I am getting the following errors on start up. Can anyone please assist?

16-12-22 19:21:53 homeassistant.bootstrap: Error during setup of component influxdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 138, in _new_conn
    (self.host, self.port), self.timeout, **extra_kw)
  File "/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 75, in create_connection
    for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/socket.py", line 530, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 594, in urlopen
    chunked=chunked)
  File "/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 361, in _make_request
    conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1090, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1128, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1086, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 924, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 859, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 163, in connect
    conn = self._new_conn()
  File "/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 147, in _new_conn
    self, "Failed to establish a new connection: %s" % e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: <requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x6f6d4c90>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 423, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 643, in urlopen
    _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
  File "/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 363, in increment
    raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='monitor1', port=8086): Max retries exceeded with url: /query?db=home_assistant&q=select+%2A+from+%2F.%2A%2F+LIMIT+1%3B (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x6f6d4c90>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',))

Cheers
Zak

You need to fix the name, or DNS, or use the IP.

Every now and then you do something really silly, like not bothering to check the your new nix host resolves correctly.

Thanks for pointing out what should have been completely obvious, much appreciated.