Daily failed attempts by root to connect to wordpress databases

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    theanarchocapitalist · Member ·

    Hello, roughly every twenty four hours, I get errors in the MySQL error log like the two day sample below. They happen only for my WordPress installations/sites. These seem to be the only connections being attempted by root using TCP/IP whereas root connects via Unix socket without generating the errors. So it seems all attempted connections by root on locahost using TCP/IP are failing. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance!

    Day one alternating mysql error log entries with mysql log entries:

    2023-12-23 3:39:05 25867 [Warning] Aborted connection 25867 to db: ‘information_schema’ user: ‘root’ host: ‘localhost’ (Got an error reading communication packets)

    Dec 23 03:39:06.068 25867 Connect root@localhost on information_schema using TCP/IP

    2023-12-23 3:39:05 25862 [Warning] Aborted connection 25862 to db: ‘information_schema’ user: ‘root’ host: ‘localhost’ (Got an error reading communication packets)

    Dec 23 03:39:06.068 25862 Connect root@localhost on information_schema using TCP/IP

    2023-12-23 3:39:05 25865 [Warning] Aborted connection 25865 to db: ‘wordpressp936’ user: ‘root’ host: ‘localhost’ (Got an error reading communication packets)

    Dec 23 03:39:06.068 25865 Connect root@localhost on wordpress936 using TCP/IP

    2023-12-23 3:39:05 25864 [Warning] Aborted connection 25864 to db: ‘wordpress_dev_wordpress’ user: ‘root’ host: ‘localhost’ (Got an error reading communication packets)

    Dec 23 03:39:06.068 25864 Connect root@localhost on wordpress_dev_wordpress using TCP/IP

    2023-12-23 3:39:05 25863 [Warning] Aborted connection 25863 to db: ‘wordpress_test_wordpress’ user: ‘root’ host: ‘localhost’ (Got an error reading communication packets)

    25863 Connect root@localhost on wordpress_test_wordpress using TCP/IP

    Day two alternating mysql error log entries with mysql log entries:

    2023-12-22 3:45:06 7073 [Warning] Aborted connection 7073 to db: ‘information_schema’ user: ‘root’ host: ‘localhost’ (Got an error reading communication packets)

    Dec 22 03:45:06.360 7073 Connect root@localhost on information_schema using TCP/IP

    2023-12-22 3:45:05 7070 [Warning] Aborted connection 7070 to db: ‘wordpress_dev_wordpress’ user: ‘root’ host: ‘localhost’ (Got an error reading communication packets)

    Dec 22 03:45:06.360 7070 Connect root@localhost on wordpress_dev_wordpress using TCP/IP

    2023-12-22 3:45:05 7068 [Warning] Aborted connection 7068 to db: ‘information_schema’ user: ‘root’ host: ‘localhost’ (Got an error reading communication packets)

    Dec 22 03:45:06.360 7068 Connect root@localhost on information_schema using TCP/IP

    2023-12-22 3:45:05 7069 [Warning] Aborted connection 7069 to db: ‘wordpress_test_wordpress’ user: ‘root’ host: ‘localhost’ (Got an error reading communication packets)

    Dec 22 03:45:06.360 7069 Connect root@localhost on wordpress_test_wordpress using TCP/IP

    2023-12-22 3:45:05 7071 [Warning] Aborted connection 7071 to db: ‘wordpress936’ user: ‘root’ host: ‘localhost’ (Got an error reading communication packets)

    Dec 22 03:45:06.360 7071 Connect root@localhost on wordpress936 using TCP/IP

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