Brent Anderson wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm developing a client application for several platforms that will
> need to connect to a remote MySQL database. Unfortunately, MySQL
> refuses connections from external IP's that aren't allowed and since
> the clients using this will be on unknown IP addresses (their home
> computers), I'm in a bit of a situation. How does one setup a MySQL
> account with no IP restrictions?
>
You probably have a line in your my.cnf that restricts the server to only
listen on the localhost address. Look for
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
Comment that line out, restart the server, and it should accept
connections from all client machines (assuming that you don't have other
firewall restrictions as well). Note however that this can be a big
security hole.
/dwight
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