seth@stripped wrote:
>
> >Description:
> If I connect to my MySQL server from a remote host,
> then no hostname (or ip number) is provided after the
> @ in the log file. For example:
>
> 990330 12:38:43 769 Connect seth@ on
>
> Maybe this explains is why the host field in the user table
> in the mysql database is not working.
>
> But is this a problem that is related to resolveip and
> the problems with pre-complied glibc binaries on Linux?
> But if so, then how will one be able to validate remotehosts?
I have not looked at the sources of mysql that do the
logging, but I thinks the problem is that mysql relies
on the hostent structure returned by gethostbyaddr()
called with the IP obtained from getpeername() . hostent
will be NULL if the DNS does not have a working inverse
lookup. Try nslookup ip_of_trouble_host to see if the
reverse lookups are working. I am amlost 100% sure they
are not in your situation either because of DNS
misconfiguration or because your /etc/resolv.conf points
to a DNS server that is down.
Patching this should be easy, only a couple of extra
lines.
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