Connecting to Google cloud SQL through my local machine

Question

I want to connect to my Google cloud SQL instance through MySQL workbench installed on my local machine. Using ipconfig, I determined the IPV4 address of my machine, but when I am trying to enter that IP address in

Edit > Access control > Authorization,

I get a message that Private networks cannot be whitelisted.

Any idea on how to solve this?

Answer 1

You need to add your public IP, not your (link) local one. You can find out your public IP for example on http://whatismyip.com/.