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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] mysql_connect using version 5.0.1 accesses the internet
 when host and client are the same system
From: php@hristov.com (Andrey Hristov)

Sam Hobbs wrote:
> Thank you. If that is what is happening then I agree that it is not PHP 
> issue, so I am happy to go elsewhere for help. The only relevant suggestion 
> is that it might help to impove the warning message and to put something in 
> the php documentation to help people know where to look. Many people are 
> having problems with this.
> 
> I have seen the "MySQL Manual | A.2.2 Can't connect to [local] MySQL server" 
> page. It is confusing, since the title says "[local]" yet the last item on 
> the page that says to check the firewall says "to allow external access", 
> which I interpreted to mean not-local access.
> 
> I wish I knew what the disadvantage of pipes are. That is not a php issue, 
> though; it is something that the MySQL documentation should clarify. 
> Probably pipes work great if there is no need to access MySQL outside of the 
> system it is installed in. If so, then it would help for the MySQL 
> documentation to say so explicitely. It might say that, but I have not seen 
> it said. I know that MySQL does poll the internet very, very often and if 
> turning off it's use of the network eliminates access to the internet then 
> that is one less thing to be concerned about.
> 
Maybe Windows is different than Linux in the way it handles connections on
127.0.0.1 ? What leads me to think about this is that only Windows firewalls
are mentioned.

Andrey