How to connect to MySQL using ssh tunnel with perl

I am using Amazon EC2 instance of MySQL and need to modify my perl scripts 开发者_JAVA技巧to connect to the database using ssh tunnel (instead of the plain old hostname:port). Any help is appreciated

Thanks

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Open a tunnel:

ssh -fNL 3306:localhost:3306 myname@myhost

Then connect to localhost:3306

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well after establishing SSH tunnel connection differs only with hostname and it's 127.0.0.1 (localhost) in that moment

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MySQL attempts to map localhost[:port] connections to use a local (UNIX) socket; you should use 127.0.0.1 for a tcp/ip socket.

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One note in regard to answer by chris - on some setups "localhost" and "127.0.0.1" make a difference. In my case, localhost didn't work, while 127.0.0.1 did work flawlessly.

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I don't know about ssh but you can encrypt connections between your application and your DB Instance using SSL, would that be sufficent for you?