Socket IO econnrefused on port 3000

I'm running a node server using socket.io 0.9.16 and after restarting my server recently I got the above mentioned error:

{ [Error: connect ECONNREFUSED]
  stack: 'Error: connect ECONNREFUSED\n    at exports._errnoException (util.js:676:11)\n    at Object.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:938:19)\n    --------------------\n    at Protocol._enqueue (
/var/www/node_modules/mysql-activerecord/node_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protocol.js:110:48)\n    at Protocol.handshake (/var/www/node_modules/mysql-activerecord/node_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protoc
ol.js:42:41)\n    at Connection.connect (/var/www/node_modules/mysql-activerecord/node_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:98:18)\n    at Connection._implyConnect (/var/www/node_modules/mysql-activerecord
/node_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:296:10)\n    at Connection.query (/var/www/node_modules/mysql-activerecord/node_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:154:8)\n    at get (/var/www/node_modules/mysql-ac
tiverecord/index.js:387:15)\n    at Manager.<anonymous> (/var/www/mutual.js:101:71)\n    at Manager.authorize (/var/www/node_modules/socket.io/lib/manager.js:910:31)\n    at Manager.handleHandshake (/
var/www/node_modules/socket.io/lib/manager.js:786:8)\n    at Manager.handleRequest (/var/www/node_modules/socket.io/lib/manager.js:593:12)',
  code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  syscall: 'connect',
  fatal: true }

nmap localhost returns:

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-07-22 21:02 EDT
Nmap scan report for localhost (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.0000050s latency).
Hostname localhost resolves to 2 IPs. Only scanned 127.0.0.1
rDNS record for 127.0.0.1: localhost.localdomain
Not shown: 992 closed ports
PORT     STATE SERVICE
22/tcp   open  ssh
25/tcp   open  smtp
53/tcp   open  domain
80/tcp   open  http
587/tcp  open  submission
3000/tcp open  ppp
3306/tcp open  mysql
9000/tcp open  cslistener

netstate -an | grep "LISTEN " returns

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3000            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     
...

iptables --list returns

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere             tcp dpt:3000

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Relevant server code:

var mysql = require('mysql-activerecord'),
    marked = require('marked'),
    conn = new mysql.Adapter({
            server: 'server-name',
            username: 'user',
            password: 'pass',
            database: 'database'
    }),
    moment = require('moment');

var io = require('socket.io').listen(3000);

Relevant client code:

a=io.connect("http://server-name:3000/",{query:stuff})

Thanks in advance for the help. Let me know if you need anymore information. Sorry if this post is a bit long.