On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 15:26, Andreas Thienemann wrote: > it's already in bugzilla as #74943 but I'd like to know if anyone else is > experiencing the same problems and maybe even found a solution to it. > > mysqld accepts local connection without any problems but a "telnet > $public_ip mysql" closes the connection. > > In bugzilla one can find an strace which shows that mysqld segfaults after > setting some socket options.
On one of my servers it seemed to be a problem with reverse DNS. Try adding the ip of the connecting box to /etc/hosts. Worked for me. David
