On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 04:30:34PM +0300, What you get is Not what you see wrote:
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> Freshly installed on openbsd 4.6 mysql,php and php5-mysql packages.
> Done the configs. Now php and mysql works. But I couldnt make it
> connect to mysql from within php with such a command
> mysql_connect("localhost","user","pass")
> It used to give "Cant connect to mysql through socket error" till I
> change the command to
> mysql_connect(127.0.0.1,"user","pass")
> I want to learn why?
> 

cat /etc/resolv.conf && cat /etc/hosts