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On 4 Jun 2008, at 14:32, Jason Nevin wrote:

> I have a hosted site and I want to be able to access my hosed  
> database from a desktop application. I'm informed by the hosting  
> company (newnet), however, that they firewall off ANY external  
> access to their databases. I.e I can only access the data through an  
> application running on their server (i.e PHPAdmin or my own web  
> app). Is this normal? I've used several hosting companies in the  
> past and this is the first time that I've come accross this problem.


Shouldn't you be using an ssh tunnel anyway?

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