Connection disabling: Is this something I should report as a bug?

It appears as if newer MySQL versions have a security feature that
disables connections from a particular host if that host generates more
than a certain number of errors.

I wish to disable this feature on certain servers where it causes more
harm than good, but I can't seem to find any docs on how to do so.

I've got a short list of why this might be:
1) The docs are sorely lacking.
2) This is a bug: developers forgot to add a knob to frob this setting.

I'm just trying to figure out which one is the problem. Any feedback
is welcome.

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Collaborative Fusion Inc.

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RE: Connection disabling: Is this something I should report as a bug?

Bill,

Not sure if this what you are looking for or not, but I'm using 5.x of
MySQL and it has a system variable called "max_connect_errors" which
blocks connections from hosts that have exceeded the value of this
variable with interrupted connections. It defaults to 10 which may be
too low for you.

Dave Whisler

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Subject: Connection disabling: Is this something I should report as a
bug?


It appears as if newer MySQL versions have a security feature that
disables connections from a particular host if that host generates more
than a certain number of errors.

I wish to disable this feature on certain servers where it causes more
harm than good, but I can't seem to find any docs on how to do so.

I've got a short list of why this might be:
1) The docs are sorely lacking.
2) This is a bug: developers forgot to add a knob to frob this setting.

I'm just trying to figure out which one is the problem. Any feedback is
welcome.

--
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.

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