I am having a problem using mysql_connect function on yahoo web server
using phpMyAdmin.  If I connect to my database on server using
$host='mysql', I can connect to database.  If I use '62.200.312.42'
(which is my ip address, obtained by visiting site www.whatismyip.com,
I can not get connected to database.   phpMyAdmin version is
2.6.3-pl1.   Here is my code,

  $host   = '62.200.312.42';  
  $user='chowmen';
  $password='noodle';
   $link = mysql_connect("$host", $user,$password);

Question:  How can I use my computer ip address to get connected to database?
How can I assign a list of ip addresses that can be connected to database?