I am getting this error when trying to connect to remote mysql server.

mysqldump: Got error: 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
when trying to connect


any idea?

tried mysql -h remotehost -u username --password pass

and got

ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query

"nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in news:f49pe7$qd$1@news.Stanford.EDU:

> Lost connection to MySQL server during query

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/gone-away.html