No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it?

Question

Sometimes I get the following error while I was doing HttpWebRequest to a WebService. I copied my code below too.

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System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect         


        

Answer 1

Well, I've received this error today on Windows 8 64-bit out of the blue, for the first time, and it turns out my my.ini had been reset, and the bin/mysqld file had been deleted, among other items in the "Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.6" folder.

To fix it, I had to run the MySQL installer again, installing only the server, and copy a recent version of the my.ini file from "ProgramData/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.6", named my_2014-03-28T15-51-20.ini in my case (don't know how or why that got copied there so recently) back into "Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.6".

The only change to the system since MySQL worked was the installation of Native Instruments' Traktor 2 and a Traktor Audio 2 sound card, which really shouldn't have caused this problem, and no one else has used the system besides me. If anyone has a clue, it would be kind of you to comment to prevent this for me and anyone else who has encountered this.