Basic troubleshooting

The first test we should perform is a simple ping from the blog server to the database server. This will quickly answer whether the two servers are able to communicate at all:

[blog]$ ping db.example.com
PING db.example.com (192.168.33.12) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from db.example.com (192.168.33.12): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.420 ms
64 bytes from db.example.com (192.168.33.12): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.564 ms
64 bytes from db.example.com (192.168.33.12): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.562 ms
64 bytes from db.example.com (192.168.33.12): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.479 ms
^C
--- db.example.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.420/0.506/0.564/0.062 ms

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