On Thursday 20 October 2005 16:01, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > MySQL definitely chokes on localhost.localdomain. And although MySQL > > will adopt to distributions using "localhost.localdomain" instead of > > "localhost" doesn't mean it's correct. MySQL by default expects > > "localhost" as the hostname assigned to the loopback interface. > > No, MySQL is happy to use whatever name the loopback interface has; it > is the MySQL _documentation_ that stresses the "localhost" string > without mentioning that it depends on the naming service configuration.
Thanks for the clarification. Since I didn't feel like reading the source code of MySQL I relied on its documentation. And it was a bit confusing (not only to me). So MySQL is happy with whatever name is bound to the lo interface. Good to know. Regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
