Database manager and remote connections

After researching the connection problem I found the following could be causing the failures:

Process of Elimination Report

  1. Firewall - Disabled my firewall. Test: FAIL
  2. Whitelist my local IP - After whitelisting my IP address with the Host. Test: FAIL
  3. Search for IP address of DNS ( https://dnschecker.org/ip-location.php ). After finding the IP of my DNS, I entered it in as Host. I then tried Port 3306. Test: FAIL
  4. I then left the Port blank. Test: BINGO!
  5. We’re connected! The tables are in view!
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