On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jwickard wrote: > I began encountering this problem right when I installed RH8, but have > since had the problem with RH7.3 when I updated new packages. If you > add the host that you are trying to connect to the database from, to > the /etc/hosts file of the machine that is running the database, the > error should stop. I posted a few threads in some linux and mysql > groups and I'm not sure if the issue ever got a conctete resolution. > If I remember correctly, the issue spawns from the host running the > database not bieng able to properly resolve the hosts that are trying > to connect to it. Someone said that the reason this was happening was > because one of the redhat RPMS was altering /etc/nsswitch.conf and > fouling something else. Those things are a little "fuzzy" for me so > I'm not sure if that helps you, or possible someone else to formulate > a concrete reason for this error. RedHat 8.0 ships with glibc 2.2.93 (which is a pre-3.0 version). The box in question on our end (7.3 machine) had been updated to this version of glibc.