So I've just tried a few SQL plugins on this site (DBI and SQLx) and they all do the same thing. They first say that it couldn't connect to 127.0.0.1 then when I restart the server it says that it couldn't connect to my actual IP address. I'm not giving it 127.0.0.1 nor am I giving it my actual IP address... I'm giving it hiprmod.net as the host.
I also tried to connect to my MySQL server on gamespy... and that failed too!!
However, the host for the gamespy database didn't get replaced by a self-generated IP address unlike the other ones.
The only difference I can see there is that the gamespy address is very long and the others are not??
Have I missed something in the setup?
I don't need to have MySQL installed on this computer to connect to other MySQL servers do I?