Everything started when I was asked to set up a syncing method for our Mysql server. Considering that I am a developer I got into deep waters first with DBA and now I found myself into SysAdmin.
So I need to connect from a remote server (slave, using ) to an other remote server (master) in order to achive master to slave replication of a database. One of my current problem is how to pipe thrugh to my master that sits behind a secure connection listening to a specific port. I am kind lost with all the ports that I see around the web. I have the local port on my slave, that should connect to the masters port and then connect to 3306 port of mysql.
I have set up new users on both the machines (just to keep them isolated from existing users) and so far I have created an ssh connection from the client/slave to the server/master using this
ssh -pMasterPort [email protected]
But I can not set up the port forwarding in order to connect to mySql using a local (slave) port. I used this
ssh -R 3336:127.0.01:3306 [email protected] -P MasterPort
but when I try to connect using
mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306
I am getting error ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (111)
any help would be appreciated
EDIT
ok, I am not sure what I wrote wrong the first time around, but now I am getting a different error. when I run
mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3336 -ugemh -pgemh@69 I get
channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0 I have no idea what I am doing wrong. The port is there open and waiting, when I run sudo lsof -i -n among others I get
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
....
ssh 31338 skaros 4u IPv6 501647763 0t0 TCP [::1]:3336 (LISTEN)
ssh 31338 skaros 5u IPv4 501647764 0t0 TCP 127.0.0.1:3336 (LISTEN)
On a side not, it seems that the port forwarding is closing at some point. Now (few hours later) the above command doesn’t produce the same result. The lines involving port 3336 don’t exist any more. how can I make them to stick in order to keep the tunnel for future use?