[SUMMARY] Major problem with PHP/MySQL and name resolution ...

"Bryan J. Smith" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin.managers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Okay, it was a combination of things totally unrelated to MySQL and Apache.

First off, we the "problem hostname" that MySQL could not open was one I had never heard of ... 
"nsql".  I've only been with the company about 6 weeks, and it was one developer who finally 
matched up the sites that were working with the ones that weren't.  [ We had previously looked at 
the wrong page/script as well -- they weren't "localhost" in those cases ]

Secondly, I've changed the local /etc/hosts file a couple of times to accomodate things over the 
last few weeks.  That was the _only_ reference to "nsql" that we had, as it was not in our DNS maps 
(until now).

So it was the timing of the /etc/hosts file changes, combined with cache expirations and just the 
coincidence of changing over DNS servers that threw me off.  Putting the name "nsql" hostname 
back in the /etc/hosts files fixed the issue (and I've now added it to our DNS maps as well).

About 15 minutes after I figured all this out, I got an E-mail from Darrell Parlee to double check 
those /etc/hosts files again.  I'm always conscience to keep /etc/hosts files in mind, but I didn't 
query the development staff enough to joggle their memory on what various hostnames had been 
used for our more older/original sites.

Thanx to everyone (below in alpha-order, maybe I missed a few) who took the time to track down 
this issue.  Especially since I led everyone on a wild goose chase into MySQL.

  Will Backman
  Bradley Crockett
  Darrell Parlee
  Flavio C. Prado
  Joe Schottman
  Darryl Scroggins

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