From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 10:28:27 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B13516A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:28:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay01.pair.com (relay01.pair.com [209.68.5.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAD1F43D53 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:28:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 21522 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2005 10:28:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 21 Feb 2005 10:28:26 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 04:28:25 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack To: Matt In-Reply-To: <4219A362.2050800@comcast.net> Message-ID: <20050221042738.T683@odysseus.silby.com> References: <4219A362.2050800@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: Freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote connection to mysql X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:28:27 -0000 On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Matt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to connect remotely to my database server. It is MySQL 4.1.7 > which I install from ports. I created a user with permissions to connect > from any remote location. I'm using Perl DBI, like this: Are you sure that you set up MySQL to accept TCP connections? I think it defaults to local sockets only; you can verify by running netstat -na and seeing if there's anything listening on port 3306. Mike "Silby" Silbersack