Firewall isn't good enough (who else is inside your firewall, likely the entire hosting company or internal corporate network). The user table has a host column that I use. Also, you can enable ipfw or some other local firewall on the host itself if you are very serious.
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Zimmermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:34 AM To: Tshering Norbu; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Port 3306 restricted to IP addresses -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At Donnerstag, 4. April 2002 12:23 Tshering Norbu wrote: > For the inbound connection on port 3306 of MySQL Server, how do I restrict > the connection to some IP addresses something like 1.2.3.* > > What do I need to do in my.cnf file? I let the firewall do that kind of restrictions. - -- Michael Zimmermann (Vegaa Safety and Security for Internet Services) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone +49 89 6283 7632 hotline +49 163 823 1195 Key fingerprint = 1E47 7B99 A9D3 698D 7E35 9BB5 EF6B EEDB 696D 5811 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8rFZH72vu22ltWBERAnojAKCFZMYbUGcp/0dQz3gJbsoHKc9xeACdFoAZ GGT4fn5G1hD+qmaEZx1+Mf4= =pmYD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
