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Re: Port 3306 Open to Internet
Posted by: igdsoftware
Date: April 09, 2006 06:38PM

In your MySQL configuration file under [mysqld] add this:
bind-address=127.0.0.1

MySQL will only accept connections from the local host. Also, change your server's firewall to block out port 3306.

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