Re: What ports does MySQL use

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 07), Steve Ruby said:
> 
> sorry:(
> 
> I may be wrong there, the /etc/services entry created by something
> (the install or redhat itself) says 3306 udp also, what is udp 
> used for on mysql?

It's to prevent confusion:

# Note that it is presently the policy of IANA to assign a single
# well-known port number for both TCP and UDP; hence, most entries here
# have two entries even if the protocol doesn't support UDP operations.


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