> Hi James, > > >>> I would like to be able to bind to a host name, rather than > >>> an IP number. IP numbers come and go, and are beyond the > >>> control of anyone who doesn't have their own direct allocation. > >>> But since I own my domain, a host name is more permanent. > >> Adding this functionality is fairly trivial, with the caveat that it > >> will have to use the first address returned by gethostbyname(), so if > >> you have multiple IPs assigned to a hostname (for e.g. round-robin DNS) > >> it will be "interesting". :) > > > > Thanks for your reply. Just for my edification, how come only one IP? > > Add another 10 lines and you should be able to make it bind to all IPs > returned. Currently bind-address supports only one IP to bind to. > > This is a reasonable request, I'll take a crack at it. > > Regards, > > Jeremy
Thank you very much! I'm willing to help test if you can provide me a diff of your changes. Jim -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
