title: Unable to access the database of homestead environment (laravel) through MYSQL workbench
body: <p>Unable to access the homestead database through MYSQL workbench Please help me out to solve this issue</p>
  
  <p>error messages at time of testing the connection - "<strong>Failed to Connect to MySQL at 127.0.0.1:33060 with user homestead</strong>  Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0"</p>
  
  <p>please take a note that
  Bind address in my.cnf file is 127.0.0.1 (my.cnf file located at /etc/mysql/)
  hosts file contains:  127.0.0.1   localhost   projectname  (which is located at /etc/) </p>
  
  <p>I have tried changing bind address to 0.0.0.0 but it was also not worked.</p>