Connecting to MySQL

I am trying to connect to MySQL (I just downloaded and implemented it). In the past, I have only used Access and SQL. I cannot seem to connect. Can someone point me in the right direction please?

Here is the message I am receiving...

Connection verification failed for data source: farcry
com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure due to underlying exception: ** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION ** java.net.UnknownHostException MESSAGE: (local) STACKTRACE: java.net.UnknownHostException: (local) at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method) at java.net.InetAddress$1.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:849) at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1200) at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1153) at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1083) at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1019) at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:163) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.(MysqlIO.java:267) at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:2739) at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.(Connection.java:1553) at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:266) at coldfusion.server.j2ee.sql.pool.JDBCPool.createPhysicalConnection(JDBCPool.java:589) at coldfusion.server.j2ee.sql.pool.ConnectionRunner$RunnableConnection.run(ConnectionRunner.java:67) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) ** END NESTED EXCEPTION ** Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago.
The root cause was that: com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure due to underlying exception: ** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION ** java.net.UnknownHostException MESSAGE: (local) STACKTRACE: java.net.UnknownHostException: (local) at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method) at java.net.InetAddress$1.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:849) at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1200) at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1153) at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1083) at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1019) at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:163) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.(MysqlIO.java:267) at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:2739) at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.(Connection.java:1553) at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:266) at coldfusion.server.j2ee.sql.pool.JDBCPool.createPhysical...