on 11/30/04 8:53 PM, Victor Pendleton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you plan on connecting only from the localhost host or via an ssh > tunnel you block port 3306 at the firewall or router. What exactly are > you looking to accomplish?
Well, some friend of a friend decided to scan me and found he could get myslq to report the version I am runing. He could not login or anything like that. He then pointed me to > http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11261/discussion/ > http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8590/discussion/ > http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10655/discussion/ > http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10654/discussion/ > http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/975/discussion/ For which I just started wondering. I can easily block it out in the router, but it made me curious as to what other options there are. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
