I have a MYSQL replication set up where I have a single master and three slave DBs. The slave DBs are load balanced behind a Zeus Load Balancer.
I can see on slave DB servers that the Aborted_connects are rising regularly. The same is not happening on Master DB server.
mysql> show status like '%Aborted_connects%';
+------------------+--------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+------------------+--------+
| Aborted_connects | 340973 |
+------------------+--------+
To isolate any possible php code connection related issue and or any suspicious connection, I have disconnected on of the slave DB server and run tcpdump. I don't see any unrecognisable connection coming in to the server except for monitoring tool and master db connection (replication).
However, I have see time to time some of the below messages on mysql error log
140213 9:42:17 [Warning] Aborted connection 2099906 to db: 'unconnected' user: 'gvdb' host: '10.140.10.133' (Got an error reading communication packets)
Not sure how this might help, but someone has advised on this Fixing MySQL errors recorded in error logs to increase max_allowed_packet to 128MB.
Even after turning off replication, the Aborted_connects keep rising.