Disabled SSLv3 to combat Poodle now cannot connect to SQL "Connection forcibly closed by remote host"

EDIT 2015-06-19: My initial answer was wrong. See comments for context.

Old (wrong) version of this answer (preserved for context):

Check if your SQL server actually accepts any encryption above SSL3:

  1. Run the connection client
  2. Find out what serverport it is connecting to.
  3. Check with OpenSSL's s_client if TLS is supported:

    openssl s_client -connect Mysqlserver:myserverport -ssl3
    openssl s_client -connect Mysqlserver:myserverport -tls1
    openssl s_client -connect Mysqlserver:myserverport -tls1_1
    openssl s_client -connect Mysqlserver:myserverport -tls1_2