Just the fact that you GOT the gibberish meant that the server was running and that you were able to connect. What you saw was a "Hello" packet. It's one of the first stages to authenticating a MySQL client to a MySQL server. It's not meant for humans.
Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine Steve Grosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/15/2004 01:36:23 PM: > I also get the jibberish, and a connection lost error message. Is it > something in MySql server that I'm not setting up correctly? > > Jochem van Dieten wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:26:22 -0600, Steve Grosz wrote: > > > >>Ok, with leaving the : off the end, and just typing telnet web-server2 > >>3306 I get some jibberish on the screen, and a 'connection lost' message > >>after a few seconds. That's coming from a machine on the same side of > >>the firewall as the Sql server. For the other IIS server and Coldfusion > >>server to the Sql server, still get a 'can't connect message'. I'm > >>pretty sure its not a firewall issue, but I'll have to take another look. > > > > > > Repeat that telnet test from the machine running ColdFusion. > > > > Jochem > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
