ruby - Could not connect: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0

Question

I am running a Rails app so now I am trying to remote connect to MySQL and I am getting this error:

Could not connect: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0

Answer 1

You might want to check your /etc/hosts.deny where:

ALL: ALL: DENY

or

mysqld: ALL: DENY

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