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...t sure is nice to have nslookup speaking to me again. I couldn't have done it without your help. Ok, here is the status. Like a numer of us, I have the uncanny nack of making life far too difficult for myself. You are goinng to sh!$ when you find out what my DNS problem was. I am somewhat embarressed to send this out public, but I think this is a great lesson for all of us. (perhaps not for the informed, but for the uninformed, it is worth its weight in gold. First, when DNS died, I picked through all of the logs to try and make sense out of what was goung on (NO Dice). In my message log...

<gloat>Well, that''s me booked in for RailsConf in september :0)</gloat> Who else is going? Steve

I just installed CentOS 3.5. Included in the install was mysql. When trying to start it using: service mysqld start. The system responds with mysqld not recpognized as a service. When trying to use /usr/bin/mysql I receive this error: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2). A search of the system does not reveal