ndbd — The NDB Cluster Data Node Daemon Format Description Added, Deprecated, or Removed --usage , -? Display help text and exit; same as --help (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --verbose , -v Write extra debugging information to node log (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) --version , -V Display version information and exit (Supported in all NDB releases based on MySQL 8.0) Command-Line Format --bind-address=name Type String Default Value Command-Line Format --character-sets-dir=path Command-Line Format --connect-delay=# Deprecated Yes Type Numeric Default Value 5 Minimum Value 0 Maximum Value 3600 Command-Line Format --connect-retries=# • --connect-retries= # Determines the time to wait between attempts to contact a management server when starting (the number of attempts is controlled by the  --connect-retries  option). The default is 5 seconds. This option is deprecated, and is subject to removal in a future release of NDB Cluster. Use  -- connect-retry-delay  instead. Directory containing character sets. • --connect-delay= # • --character-sets-dir Causes  ndbd  to bind to a specific network interface (host name or IP address). This option has no default value. • --bind-address Note All of these options also apply to the multithreaded version of this program ( ndbmtd ) and you may substitute “ ndbmtd ”  for “ ndbd ”  wherever the latter occurs in this section. 4240