Firewall Questions on Ubuntu

[Martin Schmitz]

Shango Oluwa schrieb:
> On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 15:59 -0500, karigna wrote:
>> Thank you very much for the suggestions I have gotten Firestarter installed
>> and I believe that I have the permissions set correctly to access mysql from
>> other local network machines but cannot do so. I have an account setup to
>> allow a remote user from my 192.168.0.12/55 machines but have no success.
>> Although mysql works fine from localhost, apache also shows it's default
>> page from either machine I must be missing something??????
> 
> 
> I second a previous post by vram about that 192.168.0.12/55 
> 
>  - the correct netmask for that ip address is /255...

Neither of these are netmasks. ;-) There are two ways of describing a
netmask, one is two write down a pair of addresses, IP-address and
netmask, ie. 192.168.0.12 and netmask 255.255.255.0. You can also write
this as a shortcut, it's 192.168.0.12/24. See
http://www.cs.byuh.edu/research/colton/book/node47.html

The problem with mysql might be that as a default there is a line with
"skip-networking" in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Just comment out this line with
'#' to have mysql listen not only on a local socket but also on tcp port
3306.

Martin