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...on open (so you can make a TCP connection) but does not put up a banner (e.g. when the disk has crashed or when file descriptors are exhausted on a machine). Sounds unusual, but this happens with some regularity on PlanetLab (www.planet-lab.org)... Anyway, that situation is not caught be either the ConnectionTimeout, TCPKeepAlive, or the ServerAlive timeouts. This patch just sets an alarm prior to the atomicio call that reads & processes the banner from the sshd. --Mic micbowman at comcast dot net *** sshconnect.c 2004-01-27 02:21:27.000000000 -0800 --- sshconnect-new.c 2004-03-26 14:48:24.000000000 -0...

Attached is a patch which adds a ConnectionTimeout option, and corrects the ConnectionAttempts documentation. Previously, ssh would try to make a connection ConnectionAttempts times, sleeping 1 second between tries. But each connection attempt could take a very long time to fail if the packets die before the get to the host. So if ssh is being run...

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858 Summary: Grammar bug in sshd(8) Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 3.8.1p1 Platform: Other URL: http://bugs.debian.org/238753 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: trivial Priority: P2 Component: Documentation AssignedTo: openssh-bugs

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