A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake

Question

I am getting following error when i am trying to connect Production DB from Local Environment.

I was able to connect Production DB before, but suddenly i am getting f

Answer 1

I experienced this error and did all the suggestions from you guys here but none had any effect for my error.

I caught the culprit: if you are using *.ini file for your system, you might want to check what server name was input there and make sure it is the same as the one in your web.config connection string.