Sorry to ask such a silly question, but this error message seems like its not receiving data, or you really like your test names.
[Warning] Aborted connection 332 to db: 'unconnected' user:
'unauthenticated' host: '192.168.253.231' (This connection closed
normally without authentication)
The last line of this makes me think that the host is actually failing to connect to your server. Do you have host validation? If yes, i would start to make the simplest SSL connection possible and then add features. I'm not sure what host validation gives since thats built into mysql login validation (i'm being naive here b/c i don't know)