diff --git a/src/main/java/com/alibaba/druid/pool/vendor/MySqlExceptionSorter.java b/src/main/java/com/alibaba/druid/pool/vendor/MySqlExceptionSorter.java
index 37a98bdfcc..d09dcae74b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/alibaba/druid/pool/vendor/MySqlExceptionSorter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/alibaba/druid/pool/vendor/MySqlExceptionSorter.java
@@ -24,12 +24,32 @@ public class MySqlExceptionSorter implements ExceptionSorter {
 
     @Override
     public boolean isExceptionFatal(SQLException e) {
+        int loopCount = 20;
+
+        Throwable cause = e;
+        while (cause != null) {
+            if (cause instanceof SQLException) {
+                SQLException sqlException = (SQLException) cause;
+
+                if (isExceptionFatal0(sqlException)) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
+            cause = cause.getCause();
+            if (--loopCount < 0) {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    private boolean isExceptionFatal0(SQLException e) {
         String sqlState = e.getSQLState();
-        if (sqlState != null && sqlState.startsWith("08")) { // per Mark Matthews at MySQL
+        final int errorCode = Math.abs(e.getErrorCode());
+
+        if (sqlState != null && sqlState.startsWith("08")) {
             return true;
         }
-
-        final int errorCode = e.getErrorCode();
         switch (errorCode) {
         // Communications Errors
             case 1040: // ER_CON_COUNT_ERROR
@@ -39,35 +59,32 @@ public class MySqlExceptionSorter implements ExceptionSorter {
             case 1081: // ER_IPSOCK_ERROR
             case 1129: // ER_HOST_IS_BLOCKED
             case 1130: // ER_HOST_NOT_PRIVILEGED
-
                 // Authentication Errors
             case 1045: // ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR
-
                 // Resource errors
             case 1004: // ER_CANT_CREATE_FILE
             case 1005: // ER_CANT_CREATE_TABLE
             case 1015: // ER_CANT_LOCK
             case 1021: // ER_DISK_FULL
             case 1041: // ER_OUT_OF_RESOURCES
-
                 // Out-of-memory errors
             case 1037: // ER_OUTOFMEMORY
             case 1038: // ER_OUT_OF_SORTMEMORY
                 return true;
-
-            default:
-                break;
-        }
-        
-        if (errorCode >= -10000 && errorCode <= -9000) {
-            return true;
         }
 
+        if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(e.getMessage())) {
+            final String errorText = e.getMessage().toUpperCase();
+
+            if (errorCode == 0
+                && (errorText.indexOf("COMMUNICATIONS LINK FAILURE") > -1 || errorText
+                    .indexOf("COULD NOT CREATE CONNECTION") > -1)
+                || errorText.indexOf("NO DATASOURCE") > -1
+                || errorText.indexOf("NO ALIVE DATASOURCE") > -1) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
         return false;
     }
-    
-    public void configFromProperties(Properties properties) {
-        
-    }
 
 }