Re: *G* mysqld not listening on port 3306

[Diederik de Vries <diederik@netnation.nl>]

Op di 13-05-2003, om 15:36 schreef Gregory Machin:
> i'm a beginner at mysql server - and i have the following problem i can
> connect to my database which is residing on my mail server from my web
> server. the my.cnf looks correct and has the port 3306 set , but can't
> telnet in eather .
>
> if i use mysql --host=x.x.x.x --port=x.x.x.x --usr=root
> it gives me the following error:
> Can't connect to MySQL server on x.x.x.x (111)
> many thanks
> greg

Did you enable your database server to accept connections from outside? The latest version doesn't open a TCP-socket!

Kind regards!

Diederik de Vries





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