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A Perl/CGI webapp that has been running fine for almost a year has started to randomly been unable to connect to a remotely hosted MySQL. The Error thrown is :

Can't connect to MySQL server on 'xx.x.xxx.xx' (111)

Reloading the page often solves the problem The client is using Perl, DBI and SSL to connect to MySQL using the same configuration file each time.

MySQL 5.0 Server Running RH EL5

  • Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2374 HE, 8 cores
  • Real Memory: 15.73 GB total, 11.81 GB used
  • allows networking in my.cnf

  • max-connections are not being met

  • load is low.

  • The servers firewall is open to the client's subnet.

  • The mysql user has permissions from the client's subnet.

I have my host looking into the problem but so far we're all stumped as to way the occasional connection is (increasingly getting refused)

Any advice what to check that would cause the random refusal of connections?

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  • Could Fail2Ban possibly be blocking the script's IP for a few seconds due to another service running from the same IP triggering Fail2Ban? Jun 17, 2011 at 16:18
  • I don't believe so, other traffic from the same IP is able to connect, within a second. I'll pass the suggestion on to my host though!
    – joatis
    Jun 17, 2011 at 16:43

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The cause was do to a infrastructure problem with my host. My Scripts were hosted in a Cloud environment. A "neighbor" on the node was was exhausting all the outbound ports. Once the host managed the traffic better by adding capacity the problem stopped.

I'm guessing that I was getting the (111) error because by the time the connections were able to get to the database server through the clouds firewall they were considered timed out.

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