On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jwickard wrote:
> I began encountering this problem right when I installed RH8, but have
> since had the problem with RH7.3 when I updated new packages.  If you
> add the host that you are trying to connect to the database from, to
> the /etc/hosts file of the machine that is running the database, the
> error should stop.  I posted a few threads in some linux and mysql
> groups and I'm not sure if the issue ever got a conctete resolution.
> If I remember correctly, the issue spawns from the host running the
> database not bieng able to properly resolve the hosts that are trying
> to connect to it.  Someone said that the reason this was happening was
> because one of the redhat RPMS was altering /etc/nsswitch.conf and
> fouling something else.  Those things are a little "fuzzy" for me so
> I'm not sure if that helps you, or possible someone else to formulate
> a concrete reason for this error.

RedHat 8.0 ships with glibc 2.2.93 (which is a pre-3.0 version). The box
in question on our end (7.3 machine) had been updated to this version of
glibc.