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Subject: Re: ssh + X11 forwarding = a hung ssh process
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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
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