Figured it out. mySQL wasn't down and it's been functioning well for weeks
because it stores the information for my forums. Come to find out it was
FreeBSD. Our ISP rebooted the server today to patch something, once it came
back up, everything was working as it normally should. It was just weird
that mySQL worked fine when doing selects and inserts. We had even
restarted the mySQL service previously with no change to the error below.
Anyway, it's all working now. Thanks for the help and sorry to have
bothered anyone.
MarcJ
>>Did you try restarting the server, sounds like it's down...
>>Mike B.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Marc Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:01:12 -0400
>I want to do a dump of my mysql database so that I can reinstall it but I'm
>getting the following error:
>
>/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump: Can't get keys for table blast (Lost
>connection to MySQL server during query)
>
>Any idea what might be causing this?
>
>Also I've suddenly not been able to create a link table using myODBC and
>Access. This was what prompted me to want to reinstall the database in the
>first place. Now that I see the error when I try to dump, I'm wondering if
>it's not the culprit all along.
