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I am getting error:
"Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet, system error: 0"
while I am going to connect my db.
If I am using localhost everything is working fine.
But when I am using my live IP address like below, it's getting error:
mysql_connect("202.131.xxx.106:xxxx", "xxxx", "xxxxx") or die(mysql_error());
Someone here suggests that it might be a firewall problem:
I have just had this problem and found it was my firewall. I use PCTools Firewall Plus and it wasn't allowing full access to MySQL. Once I changed that it was fine.
Could that be it?
Also, someone here suggests that it might be because the MySQL server is bound to the loop-back IP (127.0.0.1 / localhost) which effectively cuts you off from connecting from "outside".
If this is the case, you need to upload the script to the webserver (which is probably also running the MySQL server) and keep your server host as 'localhost'
Open mysql configuration file named my.cnf and try to find "bind-address", here replace the setting (127.0.0.1 OR localhost) with your live server ip (the ip you are using in mysql_connect function)
This will solve the problem definitely.
Allow remote connect to MySQL.
Edit file:
>sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf
Comment line:
#bind-address = 127.0.0.1
Restart MySQL:
>sudo service mysql restart
Create user for remote connection.
>mysql -uroot -p
CREATE USER 'developer'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'dev_password';
CREATE USER 'developer'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'dev_password';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'developer'#'localhost';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'developer'#'%';
In my case I need to connect remotely from Windows to VirtualBox machine with Ubuntu. So I need to allow port 3306 in iptables:
>iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT
Had this problem when setting up a new slave server. Found it was the slave server IP address was missing from the master server /etc/hosts.allow file. Added the IP address and it let me connect to the master server.
Note that I use hosts.allow and hosts.deny to control access.
I had this problem and it ended up being the prior sys admin changed the port MySQL was running on. MySQL Workbench was trying to connect to the default 3306 but the server was running on 20300.
The error means that it didn't receive a response from the port it expected to find the server on. The causes range from contacting the wrong machine (For one of a number of reasons) to the server not being on the expected port.
Check which port your server is bound to in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Does that correspond to what is in your connect statement. If they match then try connecting with mysql from the server itself and from the command line of the machine where you are running the client. If it works form one place and not another then you may have a firewall / router configuration issue.
One more reason...
I ran into an Ubuntu server where everything was customized and could not connect because of that same error.
This setting was inside /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitTunnel no
After turning into
PermitTunnel yes
I was able to connect remotely to my MySQL DB
The problem on my case was MySQL being bind only to the lo on linux.
in order to solve the problem i have edited the my.cnf (found at /etc/mysql/my.cnf) removing the line bind-address=127.0.0.1
this allows mysql to bind to any network interface
I just set up mysql on a windows box. I got the OP's error when trying to connect with the Navicat MySql client on the same box. I had to specify 127.0.0.1 as the host, and that got it.
localhost, or the servers actual ip address both did not work.
This error occurred to me while trying to connect to the Google Cloud SQL using MySQL Workbench 6.3.
After a little research I found that my IP address has been changed by the internet provider and he was not allowed in the Cloud SQL.
I authorized it and went back to work.
I faced the same problem. I checked and tried to set AllowTcpForwarding Yes but it was missing in my sshd_config so no help.I didn't change sshd_config or my.cnf. Make sure the ssh hostname is NOT the same with the mysql hostname(use localhost).
In workbench, choose + to add new connection and set the following:
connection method: standard TCP/IP over SSH
SSH Hostname: 192.168.0.50:22 (replace remote SSH server IP and port(optional))
SSH Username: sshuser
You can set password or add at the prompt
MYSQL Hostname: localhost or 127.0.0.1
MYSQL Server port:3306
You can set password or add at the prompt
Test connection. It should be successful then hit OK.Viola!
I ran into this exact same error when connecting from MySQL workbench. Here's how I fixed it. My /etc/my.cnf configuration file had the bind-address value set to the server's IP address. This had to be done to setup replication. Anyway, I solved it by doing two things:
create a user that can be used to connect from the bind address in the my.cnf file
e.g.
CREATE USER 'username'#'bind-address' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON schemaname.* TO 'username'#'bind-address';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
change the MySQL hostname value in the connection details in MySQL workbench to match the bind-address
The problem for me was that DNS queries were blocked by the FW within the subnet. The solution was to disable DNS lookups within MySQL.
The problem was quite stupid for me.
I used to get the same issue on AWS EC2 Ubuntu machine (MariaDB is installed locally for the time being), so I tried to make SSH tunneling, and had the same issue. So I tried to ssh tunnel over terminal:
ssh -L13306:127.0.0.1:3306 root#ip.address -i my/private/key.pem
And it told me this:
Please login as the user "ubuntu" rather than the user "root".
I changed ssh user from root to ubuntu, just like my ssh config, and it connected just fine.
So check your SSH connecting user.
I oversaw this, so this too half an hour of my time, so I hope this will be useful for you.
For me the config file was found "/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf" commenting out bind address did the trick.
As we can see here:
Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
I am trying to connect my db docker container on Ubuntu 18.04, same problem.
First check your device by run nmcli dev to check if device docker0 is connected.
If it is not connected, try to restart docker service:
sudo service docker restart
I tried make a telnet over remote server on port 3306.
The error message is clear
Host 'x.x.x.x' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'Connection closed by foreign host.
As root at server mysqladmin flush-hosts worked at all!
I had the same error when using localhost. I restarted the MySQL service and it worked fine.
in my case, I had ALL: ALL in hosts.deny. Changing this to ALL: PARANOID solved my problem when connecting over ssh
Ran into this same issue, Bind Address back and forth to no avail. Solution for me was flushing privileges.
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Firewalld blocks the IP address. so to give access, use these commands:
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --add-source=YOUR_IP/32
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --add-port=3306/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload
For me setting bind-address = 0.0.0.0 in mysql/my.cnf worked. It basically listens to all addresses (but still one port) then.
And don't forget restart your server: systemctl restart mysql
I just had the same problem, but in my case I solved it with
service mysqld start
In my case it was the university wifi blocking port 3306. I was able to connect by using a mobile hotspot.
Change to a mobile hotspot or another network, and if it works there, then you know that original network is blocking port 3306. If you get the same error on more than 1 network, then you know it's specific to your machine.
I had port 3306 in Docker container but in Dockerfile it was 33060. I edited the port in Docker container to 33060
Must have been added to the Dockerfile
ENV MYSQL_ROOT_HOST 172.17.0.1
I have done below 3 steps then working for me.
bind-address = "YOUR MACHINE IP" in my.cnf file at /etc/my.cnf
Restart service by command : service mysql restart
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON yourDB.* TO 'username'#'YOUR_APPLICATION_IP' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR_PASSWORD' WITH GRANT OPTION;
I had the same issue installing MySQL docker image then trying to connect from WSL2 MySQL client.
As it was stated in the accepted answer that it should be a firewall issue, in my case this error was caused due to not allowing docker for windows to communicate to private network.
I changed the settings on "Firewall & network protection", "allow an app through firewall", "change settings" (need administrator rights) and allowed "Docker desktop backend" to connect to private network.
I had the same error on my Mac with a local MySQL installation. The problem was that the number files that MySQL was opening was too high for MacOS.
To see if you have the same problem you can run this command and look for File Descriptor errors:
tail -200 /usr/local/var/mysql/$(whoami).err | grep "Warning"
I added this line to my.cnf file and the problem was fixed:
table_open_cache = 200
Had the same problem, what worked for me was:
Go to Windows Firewall where you allow applications.
mysql probably won't be in the list, so you need to add it, its path is typically C:/Program Files (x86)/MySQL/bin/mysql
Mark both private and public networks, apply.
When connecting to Mysql remotely, I got the error.
I had this warning in /var/log/mysqld.log:
[Warning] IP address 'X.X.X.X' could not be resolved: Temporary failure in name resolution
I just added this line to /etc/hosts file:
X.X.X.X some_name
Problem solved! Not using skip-name-resolve caused some errors in my local app when connecting to MySQL.
I've got a web server with one host, and I'd like to use the database on another host.
I'd like to use port forwarding to do this, and have already set up the forwarded port using
ssh -P -fg -L23307:myserver.net:3306 myname#myserver.net sleep 1d
This seems to be working properly (although if someone could tell me how to check, that would be great), but I can't get PHP to connect to MySQL through that port - it keeps trying to connect to its own local MySQL database (which isn't running).
$mlink = mysql_connect( "localhost:23307", "myusername", "mypassword" );
mysql_select_db( 'mydatabase', $mlink ) or die ( "Error - cannot connect to database localhost:23307.<br />Error: ".mysql_error() );
As you can see, I'm not doing anything that complicated, so why does it keep trying to connect locally?
So, turns out the answer was "don't trust people when they say they've opened the port on the firewall".
Anyone want a job?
I faced the same issue. But there was no firewall problem involved. In fact, when you are doing SSH tunneling, you need not have to change any firewall setting.
I solved it by changing 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1' in the mysql_connect() parameter list.
Refernce link - https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2009/01/06/php-mysql-and-ssh-tunneling-port-forwarding/
Excerpt -
Connecting via MySQL
It’s time to see all of our hard work pay off. From our local machine, we simply issue the following command:
$mysql -u sqluser -p -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3307
Notice that the MySQL host is 127.0.0.1, which is the same as the bind-address value on the remote server’s my.cnf file. It’s important that we use this value and not localhost, since we are ultimately accessing a forwarded TCP port, and specifying localhost causes MySQL to ignore TCP altogether and simply connect to the local server via a local socket. Accordingly, notice that we have specified port 3307 to make the connection; this is the TCP port we are forwarding.
I am getting error:
"Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet, system error: 0"
while I am going to connect my db.
If I am using localhost everything is working fine.
But when I am using my live IP address like below, it's getting error:
mysql_connect("202.131.xxx.106:xxxx", "xxxx", "xxxxx") or die(mysql_error());
Someone here suggests that it might be a firewall problem:
I have just had this problem and found it was my firewall. I use PCTools Firewall Plus and it wasn't allowing full access to MySQL. Once I changed that it was fine.
Could that be it?
Also, someone here suggests that it might be because the MySQL server is bound to the loop-back IP (127.0.0.1 / localhost) which effectively cuts you off from connecting from "outside".
If this is the case, you need to upload the script to the webserver (which is probably also running the MySQL server) and keep your server host as 'localhost'
Open mysql configuration file named my.cnf and try to find "bind-address", here replace the setting (127.0.0.1 OR localhost) with your live server ip (the ip you are using in mysql_connect function)
This will solve the problem definitely.
Allow remote connect to MySQL.
Edit file:
>sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf
Comment line:
#bind-address = 127.0.0.1
Restart MySQL:
>sudo service mysql restart
Create user for remote connection.
>mysql -uroot -p
CREATE USER 'developer'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'dev_password';
CREATE USER 'developer'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'dev_password';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'developer'#'localhost';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'developer'#'%';
In my case I need to connect remotely from Windows to VirtualBox machine with Ubuntu. So I need to allow port 3306 in iptables:
>iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT
Had this problem when setting up a new slave server. Found it was the slave server IP address was missing from the master server /etc/hosts.allow file. Added the IP address and it let me connect to the master server.
Note that I use hosts.allow and hosts.deny to control access.
I had this problem and it ended up being the prior sys admin changed the port MySQL was running on. MySQL Workbench was trying to connect to the default 3306 but the server was running on 20300.
The error means that it didn't receive a response from the port it expected to find the server on. The causes range from contacting the wrong machine (For one of a number of reasons) to the server not being on the expected port.
Check which port your server is bound to in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Does that correspond to what is in your connect statement. If they match then try connecting with mysql from the server itself and from the command line of the machine where you are running the client. If it works form one place and not another then you may have a firewall / router configuration issue.
One more reason...
I ran into an Ubuntu server where everything was customized and could not connect because of that same error.
This setting was inside /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitTunnel no
After turning into
PermitTunnel yes
I was able to connect remotely to my MySQL DB
The problem on my case was MySQL being bind only to the lo on linux.
in order to solve the problem i have edited the my.cnf (found at /etc/mysql/my.cnf) removing the line bind-address=127.0.0.1
this allows mysql to bind to any network interface
I just set up mysql on a windows box. I got the OP's error when trying to connect with the Navicat MySql client on the same box. I had to specify 127.0.0.1 as the host, and that got it.
localhost, or the servers actual ip address both did not work.
This error occurred to me while trying to connect to the Google Cloud SQL using MySQL Workbench 6.3.
After a little research I found that my IP address has been changed by the internet provider and he was not allowed in the Cloud SQL.
I authorized it and went back to work.
I faced the same problem. I checked and tried to set AllowTcpForwarding Yes but it was missing in my sshd_config so no help.I didn't change sshd_config or my.cnf. Make sure the ssh hostname is NOT the same with the mysql hostname(use localhost).
In workbench, choose + to add new connection and set the following:
connection method: standard TCP/IP over SSH
SSH Hostname: 192.168.0.50:22 (replace remote SSH server IP and port(optional))
SSH Username: sshuser
You can set password or add at the prompt
MYSQL Hostname: localhost or 127.0.0.1
MYSQL Server port:3306
You can set password or add at the prompt
Test connection. It should be successful then hit OK.Viola!
I ran into this exact same error when connecting from MySQL workbench. Here's how I fixed it. My /etc/my.cnf configuration file had the bind-address value set to the server's IP address. This had to be done to setup replication. Anyway, I solved it by doing two things:
create a user that can be used to connect from the bind address in the my.cnf file
e.g.
CREATE USER 'username'#'bind-address' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON schemaname.* TO 'username'#'bind-address';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
change the MySQL hostname value in the connection details in MySQL workbench to match the bind-address
The problem for me was that DNS queries were blocked by the FW within the subnet. The solution was to disable DNS lookups within MySQL.
The problem was quite stupid for me.
I used to get the same issue on AWS EC2 Ubuntu machine (MariaDB is installed locally for the time being), so I tried to make SSH tunneling, and had the same issue. So I tried to ssh tunnel over terminal:
ssh -L13306:127.0.0.1:3306 root#ip.address -i my/private/key.pem
And it told me this:
Please login as the user "ubuntu" rather than the user "root".
I changed ssh user from root to ubuntu, just like my ssh config, and it connected just fine.
So check your SSH connecting user.
I oversaw this, so this too half an hour of my time, so I hope this will be useful for you.
For me the config file was found "/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf" commenting out bind address did the trick.
As we can see here:
Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
I am trying to connect my db docker container on Ubuntu 18.04, same problem.
First check your device by run nmcli dev to check if device docker0 is connected.
If it is not connected, try to restart docker service:
sudo service docker restart
I tried make a telnet over remote server on port 3306.
The error message is clear
Host 'x.x.x.x' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'Connection closed by foreign host.
As root at server mysqladmin flush-hosts worked at all!
I had the same error when using localhost. I restarted the MySQL service and it worked fine.
in my case, I had ALL: ALL in hosts.deny. Changing this to ALL: PARANOID solved my problem when connecting over ssh
Ran into this same issue, Bind Address back and forth to no avail. Solution for me was flushing privileges.
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Firewalld blocks the IP address. so to give access, use these commands:
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --add-source=YOUR_IP/32
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --add-port=3306/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload
For me setting bind-address = 0.0.0.0 in mysql/my.cnf worked. It basically listens to all addresses (but still one port) then.
And don't forget restart your server: systemctl restart mysql
I just had the same problem, but in my case I solved it with
service mysqld start
In my case it was the university wifi blocking port 3306. I was able to connect by using a mobile hotspot.
Change to a mobile hotspot or another network, and if it works there, then you know that original network is blocking port 3306. If you get the same error on more than 1 network, then you know it's specific to your machine.
I had port 3306 in Docker container but in Dockerfile it was 33060. I edited the port in Docker container to 33060
Must have been added to the Dockerfile
ENV MYSQL_ROOT_HOST 172.17.0.1
I have done below 3 steps then working for me.
bind-address = "YOUR MACHINE IP" in my.cnf file at /etc/my.cnf
Restart service by command : service mysql restart
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON yourDB.* TO 'username'#'YOUR_APPLICATION_IP' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR_PASSWORD' WITH GRANT OPTION;
I had the same issue installing MySQL docker image then trying to connect from WSL2 MySQL client.
As it was stated in the accepted answer that it should be a firewall issue, in my case this error was caused due to not allowing docker for windows to communicate to private network.
I changed the settings on "Firewall & network protection", "allow an app through firewall", "change settings" (need administrator rights) and allowed "Docker desktop backend" to connect to private network.
I had the same error on my Mac with a local MySQL installation. The problem was that the number files that MySQL was opening was too high for MacOS.
To see if you have the same problem you can run this command and look for File Descriptor errors:
tail -200 /usr/local/var/mysql/$(whoami).err | grep "Warning"
I added this line to my.cnf file and the problem was fixed:
table_open_cache = 200
Had the same problem, what worked for me was:
Go to Windows Firewall where you allow applications.
mysql probably won't be in the list, so you need to add it, its path is typically C:/Program Files (x86)/MySQL/bin/mysql
Mark both private and public networks, apply.
When connecting to Mysql remotely, I got the error.
I had this warning in /var/log/mysqld.log:
[Warning] IP address 'X.X.X.X' could not be resolved: Temporary failure in name resolution
I just added this line to /etc/hosts file:
X.X.X.X some_name
Problem solved! Not using skip-name-resolve caused some errors in my local app when connecting to MySQL.
I'm developing website for my school. In that school we authenticate users via LDAP, so there was an idea to do the same via school-site. On that site everything is working perfectly, but during developing I need very often to test if such solution works, of not. In order not to commit my changes so often I want to test this site on my local computer, but for connecting with LDAP i want to use ssh tunnel. In school network we have one server through witch we are connecting with inside of our school network. It's address is phoenix.lo5.bielsko.pl. Inside this network we have LDAP server with opened 389 and 636 ports. It's address is auth.lo5. I don't have access to auth.lo5 via SSH, I can only connect with it to get some LDAP entries. So, I've tried to run SSH tunnel by running:
ssh -L 636:auth.lo5:636 hfaua#phoenix.lo5.bielsko.pl
Then, I've set in my /etc/hosts that auth.lo5 is pointing to 127.0.0.1. I'm connecting to LDAP in PHP in such a way:
ldap_connect('ldaps://auth.lo5', 636);
But I'm getting error Can't contact LDAP server. I think, that problem might be on phoenix.lo5.bielsko.pl in its SSH daemon config or in arguments passed to ldap_connect() function. Can you tell me, what should I set in sshd_config or in arguments passed to ldap_connect to get it working?
I posted the same question in similar thread, but no one has answered my question.
P.S. In my /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have line AllowTcpForwarding yes
If I got it right phoenix.lo5 and auth.lo5 are 2 different machines.
If so you have to create a tunnel to the ssh machine, and then send the ldap queries to the right machine.
Your command: ssh -L 636:auth.lo5:636 hfaua#phoenix.lo5.bielsko.pl is right if phoenix.lo5.bielsko.pl can resolve auth.lo5 via DNS or /etc/hosts, if not you need to use its internal ip address.
Also if you want to use port 636 on your pc, you need to run your command as superuser (root or with sudo) else you need to use an high port (above 1024) as stated by Borealid
Once the tunnel is up you have to point to localhost to do the queries
I ran into this same issue. Running with -d1 showed me this error:
TLS: hostname (mylaptop.local) does not match common name in certificate (*.mydomain.com).
TLS reverse lookup of 'localhost' is 'mylaptop.local', checking if that matches the certificate common name
Could be you're hitting a similar problem.
I was able to fake it out by running:
sudo hostname someserver.mydomain.com
which caused SSL to assume it was talking to the right host.
I was also getting the error hostname (mylaptop.local) does not match common name in certificate (*.mydomain.com). However I did not want to edit the hostname of my machine to match that of the LDAP server. Instead I edited the hosts file (etc/hosts on linux) file to add a line that would intercept requests to the LDAP server eg:
127.0.0.1 ldap.server.com
This has the added benefit of not requiring you to change which server name you are trying to connect to in your code, you only need to change the port number if you chose a different port.
Try replacing all instances of auth.lo5 with localhost:
ssh -L 636:localhost:636 hfaua#phoenix.lo5.bielsko.pl
and
ldap_connect('ldaps://localhost', 636);
If that doesn't work, try turning off SSL to see if that works:
ssh -L 389:localhost:389 hfaua#phoenix.lo5.bielsko.pl
and
ldap_connect('localhost', 389);
I've set up an ejabberd install locally on my Windows box, where I also have Apache, PHP and MySQL. I've also confirmed that it works great using Digsby, and have kicked the tires a bit by creating some users, sending some messages, etc. All good.
However, PHP can't open a stream using stream_socket_client to port 5222. Even at its simplest level:
stream_socket_client("tcp://localhost:5222", $errno, $errstr, 30, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT);
Returns a timeout error. However, again, connecting with an IM client to localhost on port 5222 works fine. (Using stream_socket_client to open a simple connection to localhost on port 80 also works.)
Any ideas? I'm stuck!
selinux needs to be off, or allow apache to talk to xmpp
Many servers don't listen on the loopback device by default, or only listen on ::1 or 127.0.0.1 and have localhost pointing to the other. Check by doing:
% netstat -an | grep 5222
and checking the output for a LISTEN line that shows where your server is listening.
Finally, try using the IP address of your box explicitly as the connection hostname.
Sometimes you just need to peek on the line to see exactly what is going on. Windump(tcpdump) is your friend in these cases.