david, on January 4. 2001, wrote:
: I've seen this. After I rebooted with a new kernel in Linux
: (forgetting to re-enable my network card, doh!) I tried to ssh out,
: and it locked my terminal! It wouldn't even accept a ^C, just hung
: "forever". This is in debian, which uses openssh. I've also
: experienced the same thing here, again with openssh (but a working
: network card), when it just hangs while trying to connect to an
: unreachable host. No new information here, just wanted to back up
: Brian in that it is not an OS specific thing. And ping (the only
: other program I tried both times) does *not* hang.
ping does not use TCP (it sends only ICMP packets, IIRC), so this does
not yet let the OS off the hook.
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