Ben Clewett wrote:
> It had been suggested that our DNS failed prior to this event. I don't
> think MySQL uses DNS, but I am not entirely sure.
If the db, user, etc. tables in the mysql system database (containing
privileges, etc.) contain host names instead of IP-addresses I suspect
it needs a DNS to resolve these...
> If I get a state where a 'kill' will not cause MySQL to exit. Is there
> any other know way to ask MySQL to exit cleanly?
MySQL server was probably waiting for a bunch of DNS requests? Until a
timeout occurs it will probably keep the connection waiting. This can
cause a lot of connections to occur until you reach max_connections at
which point it will not accept new connections anymore.
Regards, Jigal.
