2.9p2 behaves different from 2.5.2p2 on tunneling issue

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hi,

I have a problem with a Linux box which I updated from 2.5.2p2
to 2.9p2 recently. It's running a tunnel started via inittab
using a script which starts

  ssh -2 -N -o 'ConnectionAttempts 3600' -L <tunnel> $host

This has run reliable with 2.5.2 over the last months. Now, after
I have upgraded to 2.9p2, the tunnel is closed right after each
attempt of an application to use the tunnel which is a cron job
running each 5 minutes. So, now the tunnel is closed and restarted
each 5 minutes :-(

The message in the syslog is "Connection closed by foreign host".

If that's of interest, 2.5.2p2 was compiled with OpenSSL 0.9.5,
2.9p2 is compiled using OpenSSL 0.9.6b.


Does anybody know what's going on or what I did wrong? Or do
I need to give more details?

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen at redhat.com