Host ‘xxx.xx.xxx.xxx’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

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Possibly a security precaution. You could try adding a new administrator account:

mysql> CREATE USER 'monty'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'monty'@'localhost'
    ->     WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql> CREATE USER 'monty'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'monty'@'%'
    ->     WITH GRANT OPTION;

Although as Pascal and others have noted it’s not a great idea to have a user with this kind of access open to any IP. If you need an administrative user, use root, and leave it on localhost. For any other action specify exactly the privileges you need and limit the accessibility of the user as Pascal has suggest below.

Edit:

From the MySQL FAQ:

If you cannot figure out why you get
Access denied, remove from the user
table all entries that have Host
values containing wildcards (entries
that contain ‘%’ or ‘_’ characters). A
very common error is to insert a new
entry with Host=”%” and
User=”some_user”, thinking that this
allows you to specify localhost to
connect from the same machine. The
reason that this does not work is that
the default privileges include an
entry with Host=”localhost” and
User=””. Because that entry has a Host
value ‘localhost’ that is more
specific than ‘%’, it is used in
preference to the new entry when
connecting from localhost! The correct
procedure is to insert a second entry
with Host=”localhost” and
User=”some_user”, or to delete the
entry with Host=”localhost” and
User=””. After deleting the entry,
remember to issue a FLUSH PRIVILEGES
statement to reload the grant tables.
See also Section 5.4.4, “Access
Control, Stage 1: Connection
Verification”.

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