in reply to DBI with 2nd mysql server, nonstandard port
i just checked the http://search.cpan.org/src/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2219/ChangeLog; he did some changes to support MySQL 4 but just for 1.2216 (which is DBD::mySQL 2.0416)
HTH
HTH
In Section
Seekers of Perl Wisdom