If you do not connect probably you have a firewall in between, and it is not a timeout problem. You should ask your network administrators to open, if possible, that port for you. Another option is to ssh to the host and do a local connection to the MySQL instance.
Cheers Claudio Nanni 2009/1/17 Mosaed zamil <mzamils...@gmail.com> > hello all, > When I send : mysql -h address -u root -p from a distant computer I don't > get connected. I think it is a timeout problem. > How can I increase the timeout period. > TIA > mosaed >
