From: Seth Chaiklin Date: March 31 1999 12:29am Subject: Re: [Shouldn't the hostname be given in the log file?] List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/1217 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Sasha Pachev wrote: > lookup. Try nslookup ip_of_trouble_host to see if the > reverse lookups are working. They are. That is, if I do: nslookup ipnumber for a host that is connecting to MySQL (either via MyODBC or by mysql client) then I get the name of that host. (But this is not a big surprise, when these hosts are all on the same subnet.) > I am amlost 100% sure they > are not in your situation either because of DNS > misconfiguration or because your /etc/resolv.conf points > to a DNS server that is down. Sorry. I am the 0,001% of the situations that do not fit this explanation. Cheers, Seth