Yes, it is most certainly because mysql wants to open port 3306. If it's zone alarm, it probably says it's trying to access 127.0.0.1.
-----Original Message----- From: Francisco Reinaldo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 7:26 AM To: Matthew K. Gold; MySQL Subject: Re: why does MySQL need to access the internet? my firewall wants to know 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
