Hello, Turns out that it is an issue that Red Hat has bugzilla 75128. I included my remote windows 2k into the etc/hosts of the red hat 8.0 and all is working now.
Thanks, Tom Morgan -----Original Message----- From: Michael T. Babcock [mailto:mbabcock@;fibrespeed.net] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:47 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: restricting port 3306 connections to localhost Joseph Bueno wrote something about SQL: >>You can also restrict port 3306 to localhost with : >>bind-address = 127.0.0.1 >>in /etc/my.cnf > Or even: iptables -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT --dport 3306 -j DROP -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php