Hi Matt,
Thanks for pointing out that this change was done in more recent versions.
Updating to a more recent version should be possible for us.
Regards,
David
From: Matt Johnston [mailto:m...@ucc.asn.au]
Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 8:44 AM
To: David Chapdelaine
Cc: dropbear@ucc.asn.au
Subject
Hi David,
Dropbear since 2015.68 always sets the socket non-blocking [1], so I think that
change should be safe on older versions. The only risk I can think of is if it
gets in some state where it might spin with 100% CPU.
Cheers,
Matt
[1]
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/annotate/10f198
Hi everyone,
We have been using version 65 of Dropbear to maintain an ssh connection to a
central server. It usually works fine, but when there is a network failure the
Dropbear client waits until there is a tcp timeout before declaring that there
was a keepalive timeout. So in practice even th
