Re: [Replication] Problem connecting to master

[Nuno Pereira]

Jan Roehrich wrote:
>>--skip-networking can be specified as the command line option. Use:
>>  show variables like 'skip_networking';
>>to check if it is enabled.
> 
> 
> mysql> show variables like 'skip_networking';
> +-----------------+-------+
> | Variable_name   | Value |
> +-----------------+-------+
> | skip_networking | OFF   |
> +-----------------+-------+

It can be a firewall problem... Are you sure that the slave didn't try 
to connect to the master, and got no response, or got a connection refused?
Check the bin-log of the slave for errors in the bin-log.

-- 
Nuno Pereira