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Bug 337603

Summary:	SSH Connection time out hangs the session
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Andrew Niefer <aniefer>
Component:	Servers	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrew Niefer

2011-02-18 14:38:53 EST

SSH connections to build.eclipse.org and dev.eclipse.org time out after a while.

When this happens to me, the session hangs on the client side and I have to close the terminal window or kill the ssh process from another terminal.

Eventually after hanging for some long amount of time, the connection closes and the terminal is usable again:
 Read from remote host build.eclipse.org: Connection timed out
Connection to build.eclipse.org closed.


Is there anything that can be done about this on either the client or server side so that session just closes without hanging first?

Comment 1 Andrew Niefer

2011-02-18 14:40:56 EST

I did find this, 
http://superuser.com/questions/147873/ssh-sessions-in-xterms-freeze-for-many-minutes-whenever-they-disconnect

I'll close this bug as a worksforme since I now have a way out.