Forum Error Startup Error: Unable to connect to the Database. Exception Message: Connection Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed while attempting to consume the pre-login handshake acknowledgement. This could be because the pre-login handshake failed or the server was unable to respond back in time. The duration spent while attempting to connect to this server was - [Pre-Login] initialization=0; handshake=15003; (-2)

We are seeing this error on a YAF install - has anyone seen this before, it could be that the DB is down but all the services appear OK:


Forum Error
Startup Error: Unable to connect to the Database. Exception Message: Connection Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed while attempting to consume the pre-login handshake acknowledgement. This could be because the pre-login handshake failed or the server was unable to respond back in time. The duration spent while attempting to connect to this server was - [Pre-Login] initialization=0; handshake=15003; (-2)

This was actually an IIS process that seemed to have got stuck - we just ended the process and did an IISReset.exe which seemed to solve the problem instantly :)