sshd hanging after multiple successive logons

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Damien Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 douglas.manton at uk.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that after so many connections, the parent sshd hangs and
> > does not accept any more connections.  I have reproduced the problem using
> > a simple shell script on my local machine:
> 
> I am running something similar now (770 connections and counting).
> 
> What version of OpenSSH are you running? If you can, please try the 
> snapshot[1] and see if that resolves the problem. 

oops

[1] www.openssh.com/portable.html

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