# Connection failed to broker! urgent

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/connection-failed-to-broker-urgent/14099>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [7 August 2019 14:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/connection-failed-to-broker-urgent/14099 "2019-08-07T14:52:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![salahuiste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@salahuiste](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/salahuiste)\
**Post date:** [7 August 2019 14:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/connection-failed-to-broker-urgent/14099/1 "2019-08-07T14:52:59Z")

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hi everybody  
i have got a problem , i can't connect my dashboard to the broker server idk why , i didn't change anything and it was working fine  
i'm getting this message in the node-red console : Connection failed to broker: mqtt://liveobjects.orange-business.com:1883  
i tried to make the connection using a js file , and this is the error :  
Error: connection refused : server unavailable  
so what do you think guys ? thank you in advance

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**Author:** ![ukmoose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ukmoose/32/13_2.png) [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)\
**Post date:** [7 August 2019 15:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/connection-failed-to-broker-urgent/14099/2 "2019-08-07T15:12:58Z")

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> [@salahuiste](#):
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> connection refused : server unavailable

Would suggest that the server refused your connection. Try to connect with an alternate MQTT tool to see if that works. Such as [https://mqtt-explorer.com/](https://mqtt-explorer.com/)