[Watford] Debian Ports

[Mark Stanhope]

Walt

I believe that you will find that mysql is only listening on the loop back address check /etc/mysql.cnf (this location may be wrong please check documentation).

Mark

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Mark Stanhope
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On 1 Nov 2011, at 11:09, walt wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Hope you can help me.
> 
> I've got quite a long way with Linux over the past few months but I've run
> into a problem I just don't understand.  I've googled it to death but I
> still don't know enough to resolve the problem.
> 
> It's Debian Linux and it runs Apache, MySql, PHP and  SAMBA at the moment.
> 
> Everthing works fine.  Even the SAMBA shares function as they should and I
> can access all the shared folders from any windows pc.
> 
> However,  I also need odbc (3306), smtp (25) and pop3 (110)  connections
> from windows machines to work.  According to the network tools/port scan
> the required ports are open.  Here is the interesting thing; if I run a
> portscan as 'localhost' or 127.0.0.1 then ALL the ports are reported as
> open.  If, however,  I enter the ipV4 address of this machine and run the
> scan all the ports I need, apart from 80, are missing.  Port 80 appears on
> both local and lan ip lists.
> 
> In desperation I re-installed debian Linux from scratch but I got the same
> results.  I then uninstalled iptables but that made no difference either.
> 
> There must be a configuration file somewhere that needs changing, I just
> don't know which one.  I have already checked host.allowed and hosts.denied,
> they have no active entries.
> 
> Hope one of you can point me in the right direction.
> 
> Very many thanks,  Walter 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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