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Re: [PLUG] Hosting on compast
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On Aug 5, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Matthew Berlin wrote:
> standarad ports for
> serving almost anything (mysql)
To be quite frank, you do not want your MySQL port open to the world,
there are a number of automated attacks that DoS mysqld by opening
connections until no threads are left to listen for legitimate
connections. Even when all a thread does is echo back "You are not
authorized to connect to this server". I had this happen to my server
on July 4th. I ended up blocking the port with the firewall since
mysqld kept getting killed by the kernel for OOM.
Thank You,
Sean Collins
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