Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:53:03 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Joe Lewis <makosharktooth@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MySQL Remote Connection Failure Message-ID: <20020830075303.GB37771@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <3D6EAF2D.60508@netzero.net> References: <3D6EAF2D.60508@netzero.net>
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:33:01PM -0600, Joe Lewis wrote:
> Hello;
>
> I am trying to access a MySQL server remotely (the server is running on
> the FreeBSD machine:
> FreeBSD key.relia.net 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Wed Aug
> 14 21:23:26 GMT 2002
> murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
>
> Now, here's the problem. On telnet'ing to localhost using port 3306,
> the server responds with the version (3.23.52-log) and some encryption data.
>
> From a remote machine, I don't even hear back from the MySQL daemon.
> Now, that doesn't strike me as a good thing. We do not have the
> firewall enabled, so ipfw shouldn't have an effect.
>
> If we replace the 3306 port number with a perl server, I can hear back
> from it all the time. Can someone please extend a pointer on how to set
> up the MySQL in BSD so we can see it off-server? Please respond to
> makosharktooth@netzero.net as I am not a member of this list.
The mysql323-server port is linked against libwrap which sounds like a
suitable candidate for causing the effects you're seeing. Check your
/etc/hosts.allow file on the server machine --- the hosts_options(5)
man page describes the syntax of that file.
Cheers,
Matthew
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