Major - P3 We currently do not validate the replset name in the current tools. e.g. in legacy mongoimport
$ mongoimport a.b.c.json --host dreplset/localhost:27017 --drop 2014-10-03T18:26:24.836-0400 starting new replica set monitor for replica set dreplset with seeds localhost:27017 2014-10-03T18:26:24.836-0400 [ReplicaSetMonitorWatcher] starting 2014-10-03T18:26:24.837-0400 warning: node: localhost:27017 isn't a part of set: dreplset ismaster: { setName: "replset", setVersion: 1, ismaster: true, secondary: false, hosts: [ "Wisdoms-MacBook-Pro.local:27017", "Wisdoms-MacBook-Pro.local:27019", "Wisdoms-MacBook-Pro.local:27018" ], primary: "Wisdoms-MacBook-Pro.local:27017", me: "Wisdoms-MacBook-Pro.local:27017", maxBsonObjectSize: 16777216, maxMessageSizeBytes: 48000000, maxWriteBatchSize: 1000, localTime: new Date(1412375184837), maxWireVersion: 3, minWireVersion: 0, ok: 1.0 } 2014-10-03T18:26:24.837-0400 warning: No primary detected for set dreplset 2014-10-03T18:26:24.837-0400 All nodes for set dreplset are down. This has happened for 1 checks in a row. Polling will stop after 29 more failed checks couldn't connect to [dreplset/localhost:27017] connect failed to replica set dreplset/localhost:27017
In the new tools:
$ mongoimport a.b.c.json --host dreplset/localhost:27017 --drop
2014-10-03T18:28:44.672-0400 no collection specified
2014-10-03T18:28:44.673-0400 using filename 'a.b.c' as collection
2014-10-03T18:28:44.673-0400 connected to: dreplset/localhost:27017
2014-10-03T18:28:44.675-0400 dropping: test.a.b.c
2014-10-03T18:28:44.680-0400 imported 10 documents