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Date:      Fri, 31 May 2002 08:47:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        rsidd@online.fr
Subject:   Re: ssh + X11 forwarding = a hung ssh process
Message-ID:  <200205311547.g4VFle239342@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020531161134.E46325@lpt.ens.fr>
References:  <20020531161134.E46325@lpt.ens.fr>

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In article <20020531161134.E46325@lpt.ens.fr>,
Rahul Siddharthan  <rsidd@online.fr> wrote:
> I think it's a problem in OpenSSH 2.9 but not in 3.x.  It doesn't seem
> specific to FreeBSD.
> 
> ssh -2 from FreeBSD 4-stable to FreeBSD 4-stable:                hangs
> ssh -2 from FreeBSD 4-stable to Linux with OpenSSH (2.9 or 3.1): hangs
> ssh -2 from FreeBSD 4-stable to FreeBSD with commercial SSH2:    no hang
> ssh -2 from Linux (OpenSSH 3.1p1) to other machines:             no hang
> ssh -2 from Linux (OpenSSH 2.9p1) to FreeBSD :                   hangs
> ssh -2 from Linux (OpenSSH 2.9p1) to Linux (OpenSSH 3.x):        hangs

Thanks for trying all those different combinations.  I agree with
your conclusion.  It looks like the bug is in OpenSSH 2.9 but not
in OpenSSH 3.1.  When 3.1 gets merged into -stable we can hope the
problem will vanish.

John
-- 
  John Polstra
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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