>>> I increased the max_allowed_packet variable to 72m from 64m and also
>> upped
>>> the connect_timeout. But the dump still error the same way.
>>>
>>> Melissa
>>
>> The manual says:
>>
>> The protocol limits for max_allowed_packet is 16M in MySQL 3.23 and
>> 1G in MySQL 4.0.
>>
>> Perhaps I've not been following this thread closely enough, but why not
>> make it a gigabyte, just as a test??
>>
>> -- David.
> I increased the limit to 1gb... but got the same error. Do you think if
I
> turned on the general query log it would give anymore info?
> Melissa
Couldn't hurt - give it a try.
-- David.