I'm deploying a few Azure services to the Cloud and they fail with the following error, "Unable to reach watchdog.servicebus.appfabriclabs.com" when tryng to connect to the ServiceBus.
When I ping this host the address cannot be resolved. However, when I ping watchdog.servicebus.windows.net this is resolved.
Is there an explicit way to make my services use watchdog.servicebus.windows.net instead? Something wrong with my subscription maybe?
This is likely due to using the CTP/Labs version of the Microsoft.ServiceBus.dll. For Azure production environment you should be using version 1.0, 1.5 or 1.6 corresponding to Azure SDK versions. It appears that you have a version that is targets the LABS environment and may be versioned 2.0/99 etc. You can obtain the latest ServiceBus client dll from NuGet or downloading the Azure SDK. Another thing to check for is if you have any servicebus.config file in .NET config directories that may be pointing to the LABS environment, more details on that are here.