From: Doug Date: December 22 2012 12:22pm Subject: connection issue List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/228839 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello, When connecting to mysql, sometime I got this error: # mysql -ucdn -h113.108.22x.xx -p Enter password: ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0 But most time it's correct. What's the reason? Thanks. I am running mysql-5.1.37 on Linux, there is no firewall configured on the host.