I have a MySQL instance running on a Debian server and I can connect to it locally with no problems. However, I am unable to connect to it remotely. When I try this from my command line I get the following error:

ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on '<server-ip>' (110)

I've added the user to mysql as 'user'@'*' and 'user'@'localhost'. skip-networking in this server is set to false and the bind-address is commented out in my.cnf. I've also attempted to open port 3306 in iptables using the following command:

/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --destination-port 3306 -j ACCEPT

Here is a listing of all my iptable firewall rules, which I retreived using iptables -L:

Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target     prot opt source               destination         
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            
REJECT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:auth reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            icmp type 8 code 0 state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED,UNTRACKED 
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spts:1024:65535 dpt:ftp state NEW 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spts:1024:65535 dpt:ssh state NEW 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spts:1024:65535 dpt:www state NEW 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  <my-server>          anywhere            tcp spts:1024:65535 dpt:mysql state NEW 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpts:49152:65534 state NEW 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:mysql 
LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere            limit: avg 5/min burst 5 LOG level debug prefix `iptables denied: ' 
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere
mysql debian iptables mysql-error-2003
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