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Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Afternoon all, |
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> I have mysql running on my workstation and on my local server, and I want to |
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> connect as an ordinary user from the workstation to the server; I can't. |
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> This is what happens: |
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> $ mysql -p -h serv.ethnet |
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> Enter password: |
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> ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'serv.ethnet' (111) |
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> The same thing happens if I try as root. |
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> I can connect locally as myself or as root on either machine and manipulate |
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> tables in various ways. I haven't yet installed a firewall on either |
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> machine. |
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> I've set DEBUG=4 in /etc/conf.d/mysql on both machines, but nothing shows up |
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> in /var/log/mysql/*; only some startup debug messages. I've run tcpdump on |
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> the server, which shows that one packet passes in each direction, followed |
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> immediately by a reverse lookup of the workstation being sent to the name |
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> server. I don't know why nothing happens after the name-service request is |
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> answered, but it seems to imply that the workstation is refusing the |
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> request itself rather than forwarding it to the server. |
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> I can't see anything in /etc/conf.d/mysql or in /etc/mysql/* on either |
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> machine to restrict network access, so what have I missed? |
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Check the bind-address setting in /etc/my.cnf - if this is 127.0.0.1 |
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then no other machines will be able to connect to the mysql server. To |
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listen on all available interfaces, this setting should be "0.0.0.0" or |
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unset. |
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Also check that skip-networking is not enabled. |
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