thnks…a ton….ritesh/shadow…
it has worked…..
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Blocked_host.html
was great and 'flush hosts' has done the job.
But i would like to know that is there any difference between
'mysqladmin flush-host'
and
'flush hosts'
commands. These two commands were written in the above given link. i have used 'flush hosts'