Hi I'm new the laravel so please bear with me.

I try to seed a db in a project which I got from my co-worker, which is working on his computer. I use a Mac with OS 10.9.

I try to seed a database with:

php artisan migrate --seed

I get the errors:

[PDOException]                                                               
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known 

&

[ErrorException]                                                             
PDO::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known            

I installed a new version of php & mysql (I had one before from XAMPP but there where diff. errors) and added them to my bash profile. If I query the console with:

php -v 

I get:

PHP 5.6.5 (cli) (built: Feb  1 2015 15:06:26)

and

mysql -v 

I get:

Your MySQL connection id is 230
Server version: 5.6.23 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

For

laravel --version 

I get:

Laravel Installer version 1.1

So I guess the installation and the sourcing of the bash is fine.

I tried diff. solutions but before I screw up my machine settings I better ask.