I was creating alarms for AS 3944 and got this: System error error: DBI connect('myasn;host=193.0.0.210;port=3306','myasn',...) failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on '193.0.0.210' (111) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Alzabo/Driver/MySQL.pm line 188 Stack: [/usr/local/perl5.8.0/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Carp.pm:191] [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/mach/DBI.pm:596] [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/mach/DBI.pm:646] [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Alzabo/Driver/MySQL.pm:188] [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Alzabo/Driver/MySQL.pm:35] [/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Alzabo/Runtime/Schema.pm:122] [/home/risops/myasn/lib/RIPE/NCC/myASn/Data.pm:134] [/export/risfsa13/www/ris/myasn/newalarm.html:146] [/export/risfsa13/www/ris/myasn/autohandler.html:69] [/export/risfsa13/www/ris/myasn/syshandler:29] code stack: I hit the back button & redid the create & it worked just fine the 2nd time. --asp