Hi, Are you sure that is trying to access the internet. It may be trying to open the port, remember that MySQL needs 3306 (by default) to communicate with the server.
I think if you just open that port, everything will be ok. Bye and Good Luck. --- "Matthew K. Gold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > When I try to start MySQL, I get alerts from my > personal firewall that MySQL > is trying to access the internet...why would this > happen? > > I'm currently using (or trying to use) Abriasoft's > Merlin desktop, which > includes apache. I would have thought that if I'm > running a apache on my > own computer, there would be no need to access the > internet. > > I would guess that this has something to do with > Abriasoft, except that this > also happened to me when i was running MySQL without > the aid of merlin or > anything else. > > I'd appreciate it if anyone could shed some light on > this matter... > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
