Trying to connect remotely to a MySQL database

Question

Hi.
I'm trying to connect to a MySQL database remotely (located on the internet).
I'm behind a proxy too.
The code I use is:
public class MysqlConnect{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("MySQL Connect Example.");
Connection conn = null;
String url = "jdbc:mysql://216.75.32.55:3306/";
String dbName = "**********";
String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
String userName = "***********";
String password = "*************";
try {     
Class.forName(driver);
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url+dbName,userName,password);
System.out.println("Connected to the database");
conn.close();
System.out.println("Disconnected from database");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
but i get nested exception like this:
com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure due to underlying exception:
** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION **
java.net.ConnectException
MESSAGE: Connection timed out: connect
STACKTRACE:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:366)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:208)
at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:173)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:267)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:2739)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:1553)
at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:266)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185)
at consola.MysqlConnect.main(MysqlConnect.java:25)
** END NESTED EXCEPTION **
Last packet sent to the server was 31 ms ago.
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:2814)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:1553)
at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:266)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185)
at consola.MysqlConnect.main(MysqlConnect.java:25)
Can you please tell me what am I doing wrong?
Thank you

Answer 1

I'm behind a proxy too.Does this proxy allow connections on port 3306?