• From: The Netherlands
  • Registered: 2004-06-09
  • Posts: 24

Topic: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked.

Hello. First of all I'd like to say that I really love PunBB. I've been looking for a forum like this for a long time now. Small, easy to use and easy to modify.

But I got the following problem with one of my forums:

An error was encountered
Error: Unable to connect to MySQL server. Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked because of many connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'.

Forum: http://www.assen-4-all.nl/punbb/

And the weird part is that http://www.assen-4-all.nl/forum/ runs on the same database and does work. I didn't changed anything besides some details in config.php because we moved the database and forum from another server.

Any suggestions where I could look in to? I got very limited access (read: probably none) access to the MySQL server.

[img]http://remote.berkenpies.nl/song/Kaboon/000000/ffffff/0/verdana/8/0/1.png[/img]

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  • From: Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Registered: 2002-07-03
  • Posts: 946

Re: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked.

The host looks weird... Try removing ".localdomain" from the host (I assume the database-server is on the same machine as the webserver).

  • From: The Netherlands
  • Registered: 2004-06-09
  • Posts: 24

Re: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked.

Yeah, the database is on the same server. And as for the host we tried "localhost" and "127.0.0.1" both didn't work (currently it's still 127.0.0.1, I belive).

[img]http://remote.berkenpies.nl/song/Kaboon/000000/ffffff/0/verdana/8/0/1.png[/img]

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  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2001-11-02
  • Posts: 9,167

Re: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked.

Did you try what it says you should do then? mysqladmin flush-hosts

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

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