ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on

I will provide a quick explanation. Please let me know if you can provide any further feedback what I may be doing wrong.

Current Setup:
We have two web servers – For example, 64.12.121.141 (staging/test server) and 207.25.15.151 (production – live)

Example Push & Error:
[1] Pushing database tables from dev to live: –tables wp_commentmeta wp_comments
[2] Database source: dev (dev_website) on 207.25.15.151
[2] Database dest: live (live_website) on 64.12.121.141
[3] RUN: /usr/bin/mysqldump –opt –verbose –host=207.25.15.151 -u root -p’*****’ dev_website –tables wp_commentmeta wp_comments | /usr/bin/mysql -D live_website -u root –host=64.12.121.141 -p’*****’
ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘64.12.121.141’ (111)

Step to Resolve:
The only main change we made was to the firewall settings on the production server. Perhaps this is not setup correctly, we have a port to the database 3301 that is open. Do you have any feedback on this?

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