2.9p2 behaves different from 2.5.2p2 on tunneling issue

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:25:59PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with a Linux box which I updated from 2.5.2p2
> to 2.9p2 recently. It's running a tunnel started via inittab
> using a script which starts
> 
>   ssh -2 -N -o 'ConnectionAttempts 3600' -L <tunnel> $host
> 
> This has run reliable with 2.5.2 over the last months. Now, after
> I have upgraded to 2.9p2, the tunnel is closed right after each
> attempt of an application to use the tunnel which is a cron job
> running each 5 minutes. So, now the tunnel is closed and restarted
> each 5 minutes :-(
> 
> The message in the syslog is "Connection closed by foreign host".
> 
> If that's of interest, 2.5.2p2 was compiled with OpenSSL 0.9.5,
> 2.9p2 is compiled using OpenSSL 0.9.6b.
> 
> 
> Does anybody know what's going on or what I did wrong? Or do
> I need to give more details?
> 
> Corinna

Sorry for being pushy. Does nobody know what the reason for the
above difference could be?  Why does 2.9p2 close the connection
all the time and 2.5.2p2 doesn't? And - even more important -
how can I workaround that with 2.9p2?

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen at redhat.com