2012-04-07T22:42:44-07:00 http://davedash.com/ Dave Dash dd+atom1@davedash.com 2008-10-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://davedash.com/2008/10/22/tunneling-and-mysql <p>I have a mysql server for <a href="http://reviewsby.us/">reviewsby.us</a> that requires tunneling, and after establishing a tunnel like so:</p> <pre><code>deveshistan:~ dash* ssh user@host -L3307:database_server:3306 </code></pre> <p>I thought I could just do this:</p> <pre><code>mysql -u mysql_user -P3307 -h localhost </code></pre> <p>But I was wrong, <code>localhost</code> should be <code>127.0.0.1</code>, otherwise mysql will do things in socket mode:</p> <pre><code>mysql -u mysql_user -P3307 -h 127.0.0.1 </code></pre>