2.9p2 behaves different from 2.5.2p2 on tunneling issue

[Markus Friedl]

the previous -N implementation was broken.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/ssh.c.diff?r1=1.105&r2=1.106

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:25:59PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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 :-(

i cannot reproduce this.

the previous behaviour was to close the connection
after the last connection to the localhost port
has been closed.

now (2.9) the connection should not be closed at
all....


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