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Johnny Withers
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From: Quickling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Keeping MySQL from listening to ports to connections
Sorry, this post is not
Sorry, this post is not information, but I need to echo this
question. We've got a firewall, but even if we wanted to
open it up we can't because MySQL opens a whole slew of
listening ports: why??? Why doesn't it just open one,
well-defined port to listen on, i.e. 3306 or something?
It makes it
Hi,
As far as I know you can make MySQL listen for Unix Socket connection
(as well as TCP/IP connection). As to how much more secure Unix socket
is to TCP/IP I really can't tell you. But again AFAIK, to connect to
Unix socket you have to be on the same machine as MySQL server. So
your Apps would h
