Debian Bug report logs - #294940
mysql-client-4.1: the option "-h localhost" doesn't use network connection

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alberto Ruffato <tapeworm@inwind.it>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: mysql-client-4.1: the option "-h localhost" doesn't use network connection

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:33:30 +0100

Package: mysql-client-4.1
Version: 4.1.9-4
Severity: minor

a very little thing:
if no "-h <hostname>" option is specified the program uses the local unix socket 
to talk to the server. if "-h 127.0.0.1" is given it talks to the server using the 
network. but if "-h localhost" is given it talks to the server using the socket instead
of the network. on a local machine this is no problem, but this confuses the user for
example if he is using a ssh tunnel to connect to a mysql server.
i don't know if mysql-client has the same behaviour.
thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages mysql-client-4.1 depends on:
ii  debianutils                 2.11.2       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl           2.9003-3     A Perl5 database interface to the 
ii  libdbi-perl                 1.46-6       Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii  libmysqlclient14            4.1.9-4      mysql database client library
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline4                4.3-15       GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.5-8    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  mysql-common-4.1            4.1.9-4      mysql database common files (e.g. 
ii  perl                        5.8.4-6      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-4    compression library - runtime

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Message #10 received at 294940@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org>

To: Alberto Ruffato <tapeworm@inwind.it>, 294940@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#294940: mysql-client-4.1: the option "-h localhost" doesn't use network connection

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:35:23 +0100

tags 294940 + upstream wontfix confirmed
thanks

Hello Alberto

On 2005-02-12 Alberto Ruffato wrote:
> server using the network. but if "-h localhost" is given it talks to the
> server using the socket instead of the network. on a local machine this is
Yes, I know. It's IIRC even documented this way and MySQL refuses to change
this behaviour. There's another "wontfix" bug report regarding this
issue.
But thanks for taking time to report an issue :)

bye,

-christian-

Message #21 received at 294940-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>

To: 294940-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: done

Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 22:44:42 +0100

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