Hi Arjen, But iptables is not multiplatform! And these kind of "workarounds" do not really fix the issue. And if you are a DBA, you rarely touch iptables, which is another layer of "surprises" on a database server? So rather than avoiding to fix it, why not just do it? At least 3 "bug" reports / feature reaquests since 2006 on the Bugs.MySQL.com. ________________________________ From: Arjen Lentz <arjen@openquery.com> To: Maria Discuss <maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net> Sent: Tue, December 1, 2009 1:19:26 AM Subject: Re: [Maria-discuss] Binding to network addresses Hi Viljo On 01/12/2009, at 5:40 AM, Viljo Hakala wrote:

I am not sure whether this has been discussed.

MySQL either binds to all network interfaces/addresses or to only single specified network address.

Wouldn't this limitation be nice to have fixed in MariaDB, say I want to bind to 127.0.0.1 and a VIP network address, maybe management network address, but not to all network addresses on a server?

Would be nice, but with iptables it's fairly easy to do anyway. IPv6 is more interesting IMHO. Cheers, Arjen. -- Arjen Lentz, Exec.Director @ Open Query (http://openquery.com) Exceptional Services for MySQL at a fixed budget. Follow our blog at http://openquery.com/blog/ OurDelta: packages for MySQL and MariaDB @ http://ourdelta.org _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp