stray sshd processes
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com
Wed Apr 9 13:37:41 PDT 2003
Ben Rosengart <questions at narcissus.net> writes:
> Hello,
> I'm running STABLE as of about a month ago. I have a shell user whose
> ssh connection is sometimes disconnected by a firewall between her
> network and mine. When this happens, the privileged sshd child for her
> session does not terminate. Once a number of them equal to "MaxStartups"
> accumulates, new connections cannot be made, which is annoying, to say
> the least.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Any idea what the story is?
The firewall probably drops everything for the session afterwards.
Adding keepalives would probably help...
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