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Posted by Bill F on April 6, 2007, 9:35 pm
Please log in for more thread options "telnet MySQLServer 3306" for me returned
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On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09Connected to MySQLServer.
Escape character is '^]'.
0
3.23.41-Max-logg1YPc$%.V
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The characters after log were random & 3.23.41 is my version I think.
From Galeon on Debian Linux it return a random character .exe file.
If you can't connect with either of these ways you are being blocked
somewhere.
:56:02 -0500, Steven Musumeche wrote:
> That does sound like a firewall problem. The easiest solution is to have
> them open port 3306 on the firewall.
>
> -Steven
>
> Kevin Killion wrote:
>> I've recently features to a system by making use of some simple MySQL
>> access routines. It works fine at most test locations, correctkly
>> accessing a MySQL database on an internet server.
>>
>> However, at certain test sites, I cannot access the database. We're
>> online, and I can access web files, for example. But when trying to say
>> hello to that MySQL database, the program fails at the
>> "mysql_real_connect" call. The message is "Can't connect to MySQL
>> server", with code "10060" and error "2003". The port is 3306, which is
>> the default for MySQL access.
>>
>> (The problem does not seem unique to MySQL: we're having the same
>> problem with PostgreSQL.)
>>
>> I've been told by an IT guy at one of these test sites, a very large
>> corporation, that their company firewall is probably what is keeping the
>> system from accessing that remore database. Sounds plausible, but I
>> haven't found much while web searching that explicitly confirms that.
>> More to the point, I don't have ANY clues or ideas from anywhere on how
>> to resolve this problem at client sites that seem to prohibit MySQL
>> access of a remore database.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Confirmation that it's a firewall problem?
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Encouragement?
>>
>> *** THANKS! ***
>>
>> Kevin Killion
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