From: Claudio Nanni Date: January 17 2009 1:04pm Subject: Re: timeout List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/215950 Message-Id: <53bcf3a60901170504x6aaccb52l2fedb5d707c47fd1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd2c69a7f32340460ad5452 --000e0cd2c69a7f32340460ad5452 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you do not connect probably you have a firewall in between, and it is not a timeout problem. You should ask your network administrators to open, if possible, that port for you. Another option is to ssh to the host and do a local connection to the MySQL instance. Cheers Claudio Nanni 2009/1/17 Mosaed zamil > hello all, > When I send : mysql -h address -u root -p from a distant computer I don't > get connected. I think it is a timeout problem. > How can I increase the timeout period. > TIA > mosaed > --000e0cd2c69a7f32340460ad5452--