Re: what is http://127.0.0.1?
| From: | Duncan Hill | Date: | Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:59:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: what is http://127.0.0.1? | ||
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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.