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Originally Posted by ServerGenius
No coz the other ips on a server are internet accessible ips and localhost
isn't.
Localhost means you can access it only from the server itself and not
remotely.
same as mysql config variable skip-networking which prevents the server
to accept ANY other connection to the mysql server EXCEPT for the server
itself.
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you're too quick to jump the gun
what he said is if he's using localhost to connect to mysql
then mysql could be reached through the ip of the server since its
not hosted on a remote server.