[Moonblaze]

I am currently trying to setup sourcebans++ with my gameservers, with my webserver as my database. However I am getting this error:

[sourcebans.smx] Database failure: [2013]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error 111

My first thought was my database details were incorrect, however I double checked the details. They are correct.

    "sourcebans"
    {
        "driver"            "mysql"
        "host"                "97.107.***.***"
        "database"            "bkg"
        "user"                "******"
        "pass"                "***********"
        //"timeout"            "0"
        "port"            "3306"
    }

I have starred out the important information, but rest assured, it is correct. I next thought that maybe that I didn't have port 3306 open, but I do. It should work as I run PHPMyAdmin on the webserver as well, and can connect there. I am unsure as to what is wrong, and have looked around the internet for solution that have already been posted and have not found a definitive answer. However, in addition to this post I will continue looking.

[Moonblaze]

I found the issue. I actually found the answer in this stackoverflow post unrelated to sourcemod.

On my webserver, in the /etc/mysql/my.cnf, by default it was set to only allow connections via localhost.