Why is Host option Failing?

[Michael Satterwhite]

I've recently reloaded my box (PCLinuxOS). The machine name on the network is 
photon. I've set this in the hosts table, in hostname, and on the network. in 
my.cnf I have the following 2 lines:

bind-address            = photon
bind-address            = localhost
 
The "skip-networking" directive is commented out. If I execute 

	mysql -h photon

I get: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'photon' (111). 

mysql -h localhost

Works fine. Would someone be so kind as to let me know what I'm missing?
Thanks in advance
---Michael