Well, in all the years that I used to play with ms's sql, we always used port numbers and then connected with odbc. With that in mind, you could basically do the same thing in this case. If you wanted someone to be able to connect, retrieve, write, delete records in a MySQL data base that you are hosting, it would seem to me that it would be better to do it that way. Having your SQL server advertised as a sub domain might could be a big security risk because it would then be published as if it were a web site and that would allow people to start cracking on it till it breaks. If you use something like 123.123.123.123:3310 and you have it set up through a VPN to the other sites that you want connection to, then that would provide a ton more security. Doug
_____ From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:16 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MYSQL Domain ? oh awesome, i thought using a records as i've seen in the past places doing that like dreamhost.com etc. Is this port better security or something ? what is this actually called ? cheers, rob On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Doug Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rob. I would think that you would want to use a port number instead of a domain name. I think the port number is 3310, so you would have someone connect by going to: domainname.com:3310 Doug _____ From: Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:01 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MYSQL Domain ? Hey there, wondering if some one could point me on the right direction. I have no idea what its actually called but i want to asign my MYSQL to a domain name. So instead of using local host they can use mysql.domainname.com Basically want this to make my database accessible to our other servers which are hosted at all diffrent places around the world. Could any one give me a brief idea on how this is done ? and the pro's and cons of it. I did trying searching for it but seams i dont actually know whats its properly called i came up with very little. I thinking this is done in apache ? im just guessing here thanks, rob
