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. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php