"Waiting for initial communication packet" error 0 in MySQL I am using MySQL server 5.1.51 on a Linux machine.

The application was working fine for the last 32 days, but since yesterday a number of clients are not able to connect to the database from our application. They are getting the following error:

-2147467259 [MySQL] [ODBC 5.1 Driver] Lost Connection to MySQL server 
       at 'waiting for initial communication packet',system error: 0


What can I do to fix this? Where is my.ini located in Windows XP?
Adding the following database parameter to my.ini solved my problem:

skip_name_resolve 


This parameter skips host name resolution during connection establishment with the MySQL database server.