just noticed your reply(moments after I posted my response). you got it. Clayton On 10/18/06, Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Clayton Smith wrote: > > I've been trying to connect to a remote mysql server.. > > Off-the-cuff thought: Might mysqld be using tcp_wrappers? Try checking > /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny? I seem to recall checks against > tcp_wrappers would behave as you're seeing (it connects, then drops the > connection). > > Jima >