Possible ssh -D bug in 5.8p1 (on Gentoo Linux)

[Brother Railgun of Reason]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 12:26:08PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> OpenSSH 5.8 has just been released. It will be available from the
> mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.

I seem to have found a bug in 5.8p1.

I work remotely, and use three SSH tunnels, two of the form ssh -L 
port:host:destport -f -N -q -l remoteuser remotehost, and one of the 
form ssh -D port -f -C -q -N -l remoteuser remotehost, the latter a web 
tunnel that I may access any of several web hosts through.  When I 
upgraded to OpenSSH 5.8p1 this morning, the ssh -D tunnel ceased to 
work; it would connect correctly, then stop responding within 30 seconds 
to a minute, and the ssh process would not die on a SIGTERM, requiring a 
SIGKILL.  When I backed out to 5.7p1 and restarted my tunnels again, the 
ssh -D tunnel worked again.  The two ssh -L tunnels continued to work 
normally.




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