Date: 08/30/06 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: mysql, sql

When I try to remotely connect to mysql, I'm getting the collowing error:

ERROR 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'subdomain.domain.edu' (111)

As far as I can tell, "skip-networking" has been commented out in my.cnf -- a pound sign in the front means commented out, as far as I know. There is a /tmp/mysql.sock file, which should mean there's an available socket. I've compared my server against a test server I use, and the my.cnf files look pretty much identical.

The only different that I know of between my server at the test server is that the real server is behind a firewall, with packets being routed via snat. That might be my problem, because I can't seem to telnet to port 3306 from anywhere either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mysql/102128.html