[Wikipedia-l] the server is indeed down

[Tom Parmenter]

Warning: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked because of many
connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' in
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/w/DatabaseFunctions.php on line 19
Could not connect to DB on 127.0.0.1 

Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked because of many connection
errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'

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