Re: mysqld barfs on remote connections

[Bill Reid]

On 7 Oct 2002, David Kvarnberg wrote:

> 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.
Hmm

I have had similar experiences. Reverse DNS is correct but remote connections only work if there is an entry in /etc/hosts.

I installed the RPMs from mysql.com - MySQL-3.23.53a-1.i386.rpm and it works fine without any entries in /etc/hosts. One difference is that the mysql.com RPM installs init.d/mysql which is quite a bit different from the RedHat's init.d/mysqld.

Bill