first: you not answer off-list on list-repsones Am 01.09.2013 01:00, schrieb Terry J Fundak: > So... I guess I need to ask: Do you know that 127.0.0.1/localhost only refers > to the machine you are on, right?
naturally yes > One cannot, for example, attempt to login to a remote host with that IP > address or to go from one host to another, right? naturally yes That address is 100% reserved to go to the local machine ...... yes > unless one has some tricks going on at the port level so that is is piped to > another host. what do you call tricks here? forward mysql prt 3306 of whatever host to 127.0.0.1:whatever port? > Thus the terminal command > mysql -h 127.0.0.1 is going to open a connect to the mysql instance on the > current host of the terminal session. > > Does that help? you need help, not i > Now, if what you are trying to do is to open a console session to mysql > and the above command doesn't work, i ask with the error message i get > first, I think that would be pretty unusual and/or a sysadmin has locked the > instance > to respond from another host ..... that would be my guess. why guess if you get a error message? surely one can restrict a user to hwatever IP address as well as localhost and 127.0.0.1 is not the same localhost is a unix-socket, 127.0.0.1 is TCP with "skip-name-resolve" they are handeled different however, as said, you need *at least* to provide error messages you get since the crystal balls of most people are defect > te...@tjsoftworks.com > > On Aug 31, 2013, at 15:41, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> >> >> Am 01.09.2013 00:26, schrieb John Smith: >>> How do I change my connection from localhost to 127.0.0.1 on a Win8 machine? >> >> in which context? >> >> mysql -h 127.0.0.1..................
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