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[Honza Horak <hhorak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/12/2014 05:08 PM, Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> Hi, Honza!
>
> > there are apparently some tools out there [1], that check if the server
> > is up quite often, while not closing the connection properly. It
> > eventually ends in 'many connection errors', because max_connect_errors
> > is always limited now.
> >
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104957
>
> What's the status of that?
>
> Was any workaround (skip-name-resolve, max_connect_errors=4294967295 or
> FLUSH HOSTS, which can be run periodically with CREATE EVENT) considered
> good enough? I see that the bug is closed as NOTABUG.

Guys who reported this started using skip-name-resolve=1, but it does 
more than necessary, so it is still considered a work-around and it 
still seems to be a good idea to add some feature that would disable 
only max_connect_errors.

Honza