"Federated Denial of Service"
  Federated storage engine used to attempt to open connections within
  the ::create() and ::open() methods which are invoked while LOCK_open
  mutex is being held by mysqld. As a result, no other client sessions
  can open tables while Federated is attempting to open a connection.
  Long DNS lookup times would stall mysqld's operation and a rogue
  connection string which connects to a remote server which simply
  stalls during handshake can stall mysqld for a much longer period of
  time.
  This patch moves the opening of the connection much later, when the
  federated actually issues queries, by which time the LOCK_open mutex is
  no longer being held.