Jon Nelson on 21 Oct 2003 06:51:02 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] SSH & SSL not playing well together


Mental said:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:58:59PM -0400, Jon Nelson wrote:
>> I have been working on some php scripting for my webmail client which
>> runs
>> over a SSL connection.  When I am working on the scripts from home I ssh
>> in to the same box serving the webmail client and after a few minutes I
>> lose the ssh connection with an error like "Software connection reset by
>> host."  There are no errors in /var/log/messages.
>>
>> If I ssh into another box on my office network and then ssh into the box
>> running the webmail client over the local net I have no problems. The
>> webmail server has a local and external interface.
>>
>> I have experienced this problem with both putty an cygwin and exploiter
>> and mozilla.
>>
>
> Is nat involved? Are you just hitting the tcp timeout for idle
> connections in whatever the nat software is? Thats what I've seen cause
> that frequently.

Nope.  No nat.  I can also be in the middle of typing and the connection
is lost.

>
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