Dynamic Port Forwarding - Connection reset by peer problem

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Pavel Rosputko wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I use the dynamic port forwarding. I execute `ssh -D 5555
> my-external.com`. Then I use localhost:5555 as a socks server. I
> connect to my-server.com via socks at 5555. It seems my client does
> not detect connection reset by peer and hangs on recv forever when
> my-server.com does connection reset. May it be a problem in openssh
> socks5' implementation?

Who knows? You didn't provide enough information to tell. You could start
with:

- Your platform (client and server)
- The version(s) of ssh and sshd in use
- Debug output from ssh (ssh -vvv ...) and sshd (sshd -ddd ...)

Then we might be able to figure out what has gone wrong.

-d