On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM, ML <mailinglists at mailnewsrss.com> wrote: [snip] > > I checked my hardware firewall (a dedicated UnTangle system) and that is successfully allowing the passage. I know this because the firewall shows: > > 2009-12-22 6:29:41 am passed <my IP>:35606 <server IP>:3306 > > I checked the firewall (system-config-securitylevel-tui) on the server and that has 3306:tcp allowed. Can you post the outputs of: netstat -tlnw itpables -L grep bind-address /etc/my.cnf