openssh unix dev - Apr 2009 - sftp Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

Hello

I saw this error below. My feeling is that the second line is not
needed. Would a patch be accepted to change it? If it's easy enough to
do I could probably track down the bit of code generating it.

the ssh error is also not quite as good as it could be, My feeling is
that it doesn't need to tag "Name or service not known" on to the
end
of the line when it has already said it Could not resolve the
hostname!

Please include my email address in any replies as I am not on this mailing list.

Regards, Jon

j at laptop:~$ sftp oops at unknown-web-qbcdef.com
Connecting to unknown-web-qbcdef.com...
ssh: Could not resolve hostname unknown-web-qbcdef.com: Name or
service not known
Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer
j at laptop:~$


j at laptop:~$ ssh unknown-web-qbcdef.com
ssh: Could not resolve hostname unknown-web-qbcdef.com: Name or
service not known
j at laptop:~$

I'll be happy to donate 40 Euros to the project if both of these
messages could be simplified as I suggest.

Best regards, Jon

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 06:53:45PM +0100, Jon Grant
wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I saw this error below. My feeling is that the second line is not
> needed. Would a patch be accepted to change it? If it's easy enough to
> do I could probably track down the bit of code generating it.
> 
> the ssh error is also not quite as good as it could be, My feeling is
> that it doesn't need to tag "Name or service not known" on to
the end
> of the line when it has already said it Could not resolve the
> hostname!
That's what strerror(errno) gives, and you only think it's not needed
because you probably already knew what the problem was. If the system error
was "Network unreachable", but it was never printed, you might be
ripping
your hair out.

Please file a bug at https://buzgilla.mindrot.org/ so it doesn't get
lost.

-d

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Jon Grant wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I saw this error below. My feeling is that the second line is not
> needed. Would a patch be accepted to change it? If it's easy enough to
> do I could probably track down the bit of code generating it.
> 
> the ssh error is also not quite as good as it could be, My feeling is
> that it doesn't need to tag "Name or service not known" on to
the end
> of the line when it has already said it Could not resolve the
> hostname!
> 
> Please include my email address in any replies as I am not on this mailing
list.
> 
> Regards, Jon
> 
> j at laptop:~$ sftp oops at unknown-web-qbcdef.com
> Connecting to unknown-web-qbcdef.com...
> ssh: Could not resolve hostname unknown-web-qbcdef.com: Name or
> service not known
> Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer
> j at laptop:~$
> 
> 
> j at laptop:~$ ssh unknown-web-qbcdef.com
> ssh: Could not resolve hostname unknown-web-qbcdef.com: Name or
> service not known
> j at laptop:~$
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