Carl Troein writes:
>
>
> Does this mean that mysqld keeps its own cache of hostnames,
> and that it never checks to see if it has gone stale? If so,
> one might have to shut down and restart the server at regular
> intervals (once an hour or whatever) if one relies on host
> names (maybe not a good idea unless you can control the DNS
> server and/or hosts file) for additional security. This, of
> course, assuming that the name<->address mapping isn't
> absolutely constant, but it rarely is.
>
> //C
>
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> Carl Troein - C�rdan / Istari-PixelMagic - UIN 16353280
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Yes, that is so.
But you do not have to restart MySQL. Just run:
FLUSH HOSTS
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