Bug#458154: [NSLU2] ssh connection should not time out

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

Op 07-01-2008 om 00:12 schreef Frans Pop:
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> However, the fact remains that _we_ have so far not been able to reproduce 
> the issue. As I've said earlier, I've had an SSH install sitting unused for 
> over 4 hours without the connection being lost, with basically default SSH 
> settings both on the SSH client machine and in the installer.
> 
> So the question still is _why_ ssh drops the connection in your case.
> AFAICT from reading the SSH documentation, the default SSH settings that are 
> used in the installer do _not_ poll the client to see if it is still there, 
> so it is unlikely that the server is responsible for dropping the 
> connection.
> 
> Maybe you could try running your ssh client with maximum verbosity options 
> to see what is going on?

Please tell also about the network configuration, especially the Domain
Name Server setup. I suspect that due incomplete DNS configuration
the installer can not reverse lookup the FQDN of the client, which
results in different time-out behaviour.


Cheers
Geert Stappers