application times out when connecting to MongoLab from Heroku

Question

I am hosting a node.js application on Heroku and trying to connect to MongoLab using the node module node-mongodb-native to connect. My application works fine when run from

Answer 1

In case anyone else has this issue:

It is now possible to choose what version of node you would like to run on Heroku. So by adding the following code to my package.json I was able to connect to MongoLab no problem:

"engines": {
  "node": "0.6.12"
, "npm": "1.1.4"
}

Thanks.