Re: Hangs when downloading large files

[Greg Ferrar <ferrar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas,

Thank you--I have informed the customers who reported this, that it is 
apparently a bug in OpenSSH, and that they should upgrade the server to 
fix it. Thank you for all your assistance with this.


-
Greg


Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Thursday 11 March 2010 02:07:31 you wrote:
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> > Andreas,
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> Hi Greg,
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> > I upgraded to openssh-4.3p2-36. And now the hang no longer occurs. I was
> > afraid it might be like that. On the one hand, it does strongly suggest
> > a server bug, and that might mean that my customers can work around it
> > by upgrading their SSH server. On the other hands, if they don't have
> > the option of upgrading their SSH server, they have no solution, whereas
> > if we'd stuck with 4.3p2-24, maybe we could perhaps have worked around
> > it in libssh.
> >     
>
> Well, the openssh version is the same, it is just a new bugfix release and 
> well between 4.3p2-24 and 4.3p2-36 two security bugs have been fixed as well. 
> So you should encourage them to update to the latest bugfix release.
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> > If you wish, I can retreat to 4.3p2-24, and we can continue to work on
> > it there. But if you're content to leave things as they are in libssh,
> > I'll see if my customers (two reported this problem) are content to
> > upgrade their servers.
> >     
>
> The question is if we are able to work around this bug from the client. You 
> should try to convince your customers to update the openssh package.
>  
> Cheers,
>
>
> 	-- andreas
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