sshd buildup of CLOSE_WAIT leading to unable to function

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Apr 2 08:55:00 GMT 2014


On Apr  1 13:38, Joshua Hudson wrote:
> Hi. I'm getting a situation on one machine where sshd will fail to
> accept connections in a way that says "connection refused" even though
> it is listening. The server shows a large (58) number of connections
> in CLOSE_WAIT.
> 
> A Google search leads me to
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg01235.html
> and eventually to
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q198663
> but I don't think that's right. Somebody else managed to this this in 2009
> http://www.44342.com/ssh-f1158-t3789-p1.htm

BLODA?  See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda


Corinna

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