title: How to connect to remote couchdb database
body: <p>I am new in couchdb. I am running a python code in a server. This code stores data in a couchdb database. I want it to store the database in my computer. My code is very simple and the following one:</p>
  
  <pre><code>server = Server('http://125.151.58.68:5984/')
  db = server['dnsrecords']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I run this code , I get the following error messages:</p>
  
  <pre><code>File "dblookup.py", line 12, in main
      db = server['dnsrecords']
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.8-py2.6.egg/couchdb/client.py", line 137, in __getitem__
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.8-py2.6.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 377, in head
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.8-py2.6.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 419, in _request
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.8-py2.6.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 239, in request
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/CouchDB-0.8-py2.6.egg/couchdb/http.py", line 205, in _try_request_with_retries
  
  socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
  </code></pre>