How To Unblock AWS RDS Connections
erics, October 24th, 2012
Recently, I had a client site outage. AWS had a major EBS failure on Zone B, and one of the instances never recovered. One of the major issues was the inability to connect to the RDS service:
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# mysql -h yourDB.yourRDS.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -u meyadmin -p Enter password: ERROR 1129 (00000): Host 'ip-X-X-X-X.ec2.internal' is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' |
It turns out two steps were required for resolution: 1. Reboot the instance to get network access […]