ssh 'connection reset by peer' problem since 5.8p1

Corinna Vinschen vinschen at redhat.com
Tue Mar 8 06:29:30 EST 2011


Hi Darren,

On Feb 17 23:27, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On 17/02/2011 10:34 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >As an additional datapoint, we had a couple of similar bug reports after
> >I upgraded openssh in the Cygwin distro to 5.7p1 and then 5.8p1.  One of
> >them even comes with a set of debug output of working (5.6p1) and
> >non-working (5.8p1) connection attempts:
> [...]
> >However, I tried with various older versions of SSH running on Cygwin,
> >Linux and Solaris to connect from 5.8p1 myself, and I'm unable to
> >reproduce this problem.
> 
> Thanks for the extra info.  I haven't been able to reproduce either.
> I've tried building 5.5p1 and 4.3p1 against (locally built) OpenSSL
> 0.9.6b and 0.9.8d.  There seems to be some piece of the puzzle
> missing...
> 
> I diffed the working and non working clients, and one difference is:
> debug1: sending SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
> 
> although I'm not sure that's significant since Oren's output had
> SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP.  You could try forcing it with "ssh -vvv
> -o KexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 server"
> 
> (aside: I now want to add OpenSSL's version output to the server
> debug output)

is there any progress in that matter?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat


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