this has now been solved however PLEASE read the text bellow and then tell me what the problem could be. i solved it by changeing $sql_host="sql.myserver.com"; to $sql_host="sqlserverIP";

why would this change anyting and how could this happen all of a sudden??

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Hello

I have 2 (let's call them A & B)webservers and 1 mysql server runnning all on debian. both webservers use the mysql server for all websites on them. Today i noticed server A had this message "FATAL ERROR: Connection to database server failed.Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111"

I thougt it was a problem on the mysql server however the sql server is up and running and server B dont have this error and displays all websites thats hosted on it fine without any mysql errors. Why is server A displaying this message ? this error was not there yesterday and i have not done any changes to it.

Hi -

Lots of potential reasons, including temporary "network hiccough".

Here's the mysql page on the subject:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/...onnection.html