On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Dwalu Z. Khasu wrote: =>Neither the DOS nor Unix man pages for telnet mention a colon--Why do you =>think you need one? Let me try again, how about 'telnet web-server 3306'? => Sorry for the typo. For your example, that should've been: telnet web-server2 3306
Are you sure you're connecting to the appropriate box? Should your command string be telnet <db-server> 3306 instead? - Dwalu .peace -- I am an important person in this world - Now is the most important time in my life - My mistakes are my best teachers - So I will be fearless. - Student Creed -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]