sftp Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

[William Ahern]

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.