Connecting to sockets on the front-end

[Graham Waller]

I have been experimenting with MySQL Proxy to temporarily redirect PHP scripts to a remote db (whilst DNS propogation takes place).

After compiling MySQL Proxy and starting it with the following command line it works initially:

/usr/local/sbin/mysql-proxy --proxy-backend-addresses=remote_ip:3306 /
--daemon --proxy-address=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

However it soon encounters a problem and freezes with the following error being repeated:

"network-mysqld.c.1671: can't convert addr-type 1 into a string"

Is this because support for sockets on the front end does not currently work? I was hoping to use MySQL for connections to localhost to avoiding changing php.

Many thanks
Graham