Problems using MySQL

[vonderbecke]

I added a MySQL host (mysql.vonderbecke.net) and a username after creating a database, however it doesn’t appear as if my host is even running mysql!

mysql.vonderbecke.net won’t even resolve (not even from my host - paperboy). When I try to connect to localhost from paperboy to mysql it just says mysql isn’t running.

Am I doing something wrong or did I happen to land on a server that doesn’t even have mysql installed? (‘dpkg -l | grep mysql’ shows no mysql-server package, just the client and common files)

[will]

It takes a little bit for the hostname to be created. I went ahead and forced an update, but usually this should happen pretty quickly in any event (within an hour or two of creation).

Am I doing something wrong or did I happen to land on a server that doesn’t even have mysql installed? (‘dpkg -l | grep mysql’ shows no mysql-server package, just the client and common files)

Mail and databases are handled on machines separate from the hosting machines.