Killing the OpenSSH server doesn't cause the Windows OpenSSH client to die

[Bob Rasmussen]

It depends how you "kill" the SSH server.

If you kill it by sending it a SIGKILL signal, it will NOT notify the 
client, so the client will stay running until the client discovers the 
connection is broken.

What happens if you send the SSH server a SIGHUP signal? This should cause 
an orderly shutdown on the server, which should notify the client, which 
should cause the client to do an orderly shutdown.

On Fri, 7 Apr 2023, Yuri wrote:

> I connect with the OpenSSH client on Windows to the OpenSSH server on 
> FreeBSD, all in one LAN, Wifi to Eithernet.
>
>
> After a while, usually when the connection is inactive for some time, it 
> becomes dysfunctional: it becomes impossible to connect through reverse port 
> forwards from FreeBSD to Windows.
>
> At such times killing the ssh server process on FreeBSD, corresponding to the 
> connection, doesn't cause the client to exit on Windows.
>
> But hitting Enter on the client in Windows causes it to immediately exit.
>
>
> Did anybody experience a problem like this?
>
> Could there be a bug in OpenSSH?
>
> Is it possible that Windows fails to deliver the signal to the client that 
> the connection was terminated?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Yuri
>
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