contact administrator of this web site to increase 'Connection Timeout

[llegrand]

Maxter is correct - the setting is for seconds  -  and is usually relatively  low,  most of our installations run well with this setting: 

mysql.connect_timeout = 20;

the M,  is problematic and the 256  would equate to over 4 minutes waiting time  that the mysqld server waits for a connect packet before responding with Bad handshake.