#31220 [Bgs]: bloated localhost connection

ID: 31220 User updated by: bc at default dot co dot yu Reported By: bc at default dot co dot yu Status: Bogus Bug Type: MySQL related Operating System: Linux 2.4 PHP Version: 4.3.10 New Comment: but can it be fixed by some workaround. I need it really bad, because there's hundreds of scripts with "localhost" in it and it couldn't be easy to change all of them to "127.0.0.1" or whatever else. 10x in advance Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-12-21 07:40:21] sniper@php.net RTFM: http://www.php.net/mysql_connect "Note: Whenever you specify "localhost" or "localhost:port" as server, the MySQL client library will override this and try to connect to a local socket..." Read the rest from the manual page.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-12-21 06:19:23] bc at default dot co dot yu Description: ------------ I'm using recent 4.3.10 release with mysql 4.1 client libs. I have a configuration of 2 servers. One is the MySQL database, another is apache 1.3 running PHP 4.3.10 through CGI/FastCGI interface. All scripts are using "localhost" value in mysql_connect() function. Actually that connection is being NAT'ed with iptables to MySQL server. When I do manual connect with telnet to localhost:3306 it works fine. Also if "localhost" is changed to "127.0.0.1" or direct IP of MySQL host ( 10.1.5.55 in this case ) it just works fine! *But* when is "localhost" in mysql_connect() it simply does NOT work! Reproduce code: --------------- I keep getting this: Access denied for user: 'username@10.1.5.89' (Using password: NO) keep in mind that I *am* providing the password: $db = mysql_connect("localhost", "$db_username", $db_password); this is my /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain BTW, I've tried all the combinations: 127.0.0.1 localhost or: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31220&edit=1