From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 15: 5:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307CF37B412 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valis.olywa.net (valis.olywa.net [216.173.192.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E7043E4A for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from corey@snowpoint.com) Received: from intrepid.snowpoint.com ([216.173.213.173]) by valis.olywa.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-56662U5000L500S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:05:28 -0700 Received: from ([216.173.213.170]) by intrepid.snowpoint.com (Merak 4.4.2) with SMTP id HUB36795; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 14:59:57 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" To: Jeff Jeter Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:02:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Mysql won't let me in -- Update Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3D722BFB.27297.3EF08E2D@localhost> In-reply-to: <20020901151654.2ca551ad.gsfgf@softhome.net> References: <3D70C959.19129.39875B56@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1 Sep 2002, at 15:16, Jeff Jeter wrote: > I got it eorking locally, but when i try to connect remotely "mysql -h server" it hangs. How do i allow access. I can't connect w/ ftp, nfs, or telnet to this box either. my /etc/hosts.allow is "ALL : ALL : allow" > > > To be honest, I'm not certain- I haven't tried to access a mysql server remotely. However, you'll want to be sure that you can access the box by more mundane means (ping, for example) from whatever host you're trying to work from. You might just have a connectivity problem. Is the myslq server running a firewall of any type, or is there a firewall between the host and the server? Corey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message