openssh 3.8p1 connect timeouts

From: M Bowman (mic_bowman)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:51:04 -0800

i'm trying to write some scripts that automate program execution on a large
number of planetlab machines across the internet... it is not uncommon for
the sshd on those machines to end up in a weird state (e.g. accepting
connections but no banner). i've played around with all of the various
timeout configuration variables in the open ssh client, but still can't get
ssh to die gracefully under those circumstances. the obvious solution is to
add a timeout to the wrapper (which i have done), but the granularity of the
timeout is pretty large (some of the remote apps take a while to run) so i'd
rather have ssh just tell me that it couldn't connect. any ideas????

--mic

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