Erek Dyskant wrote: > It sounds like the MySQL server is configured to do reverse DNS lookups > on incoming connections, and those DNS lookups are timing out. For > small systems (a few web servers and a db server) I tend to add the web > servers to the system's hosts file, so the mysql server doesn't have to > do a DNS lookup for every connection. mysqld always does reverse lookup by default. to change that, you need the 'skip-name-resolve' option in the [mysqld] section of your config file ( usually /etc/my.cnf and make sure there is no /var/lig/mysql/my.cnf ) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq