Incident resolution - FYI
The cause of this issue was that there was a missing part of the recovery.conf file which read;
primary_conninfo = 'nnn.nn.nn.nnn'
It should have read;
primary_conninfo = 'host=nnn.nn.nn.nnn'
Where nnn.nn.nn.nnn is the master servers IP address
Many thanks
Doug Reed
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07973-132664
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