I have 2 machines, a server (Win NT server) and a workstation (Win XP Pro). On the server I have PHP, mySQL, Apache, Perl, etc. If I run this command from the prompt... G> mysql -h db.torres.ws -u user It connects fine. If I do this from PHP... $db_user = "user"; $db_pass = ""; $db_name = "myDB"; $db_host = 'db.torres.ws'; // '192.168.1.10' mysql_pconnect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass) or die("Unable to connect to SQL server"); mysql_select_db($db_name) or die("Unable to select database"); I get this... Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Unknown MySQL Server Host 'db.torres.ws' (11001) in G:\home\php\htdocs\db.php on line 12 But if I use the IP, it connects just fine. If I use 'localhost', it works. BTW: db.torres.ws is in the HOSTS file on both machines. This worked before. I had to reinstall the database and now it doesn't work. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Walter -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php