asterisk users - Jun 2006 - MySQL Realtime Voicemail Connection Lost

I'm using realtime for voicemail users, and for reasons that I don't yet
understand, when it doesn't get used for a while (like overnight), the first
connection attempt of the day will display this on the console.

Jun 21 07:54:00 ERROR[8112]: cdr_addon_mysql.c:159 mysql_log: cdr_mysql: Unknown
connection error: (2006) MySQL server has gone away
Jun 21 07:54:01 NOTICE[8120]: rtp.c:564 ast_rtp_read: Unknown RTP codec 96
received
    -- Executing VoiceMail("SIP/xxx.187.142.186-b773c428",
"u2944017@voicemail") in new stack
Jun 21 07:54:01 ERROR[8120]: res_config_mysql.c:623 mysql_reconnect: MySQL
RealTime: Failed to reconnect. Check debug for more info.
Jun 21 07:54:01 WARNING[8120]: app_voicemail.c:2411 leave_voicemail: No entry in
voicemail config file for '2944017'

The next connection attempt will work. Happens like clockwork every morning. It
would seem that Asterisk is not reconnecting the first time, even when it says
it is. I'm thinking I may open a bug on this. Has anyone else encountered
this behaviour?

Doug.