Comment 1 for bug 1668903

Hello and thank you for filing this bug report.

Note that the `mongodump --help` output states:

  -h, --host=<hostname> mongodb host to
                                                            connect to
                                                            (setname/host1,host-

Have you tried:

mongodump -u xxxx -p xxxx --host=somehost.com:27017 -d some_db -o backup

?

As far as I can tell, mongodump has no positional arguments, so it's rather confusing.

I am unable to reproduce the issue, in any case, on 17.04 (with or without '='). What version of Ubuntu are you running?