On 11 Feb 2003 at 20:59, Rasjid Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 2:02 pm, Gordon Rowell wrote:
> <snip>
> > And you are correct (apologies). We do block MySQL access via packet
> > filters on the external interface, but do not currently block it from
> > the local network, though we intend to do so.
> 
> Hopefully this will be done a db entry, so it will be easy to enable local 
> network access again.
> 

Quote from Gordon Rowell yesterday:

> We are planning to limit MySQL to local (Unix domain sockets) in the
> future. We don't need TCP access for our uses of MySQL, but this may
> be an issue for others. We plan to do this as a config db option -
> with network/TCP access disabled by default.

So you can relax...

-- 
Nick Ramsay
Witzend Computer Services
http://www.witzendcs.co.uk/


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