On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Matthew K. Gold wrote:

> ever since I put up a personal firewall, when I start MySQL I''ve been
> getting alerts that MySQL is trying to access this ip address when I start
> it...
> 
> what, exactly, is it, and is there any reason why MySQL would need to access
> the internet if I have apache on my own machine?

127.0.0.1 == your machine.

127.0.0.1 == something called the local loopback.

In other words, pretty safe to let mysql access it.


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