[ILUG] Why do my ssh sessions drop after about 15 mins?

[Ewan Oughton]

Try adding

ServerAliveInterval 30

to ~/.ssh/config on the client and see 
if that helps. Cured dropped connections I was having.




Regards


Ewan

Ewan Oughton B.Sc. Comp Sys
DB / AnonFTP / Orac Root Admin SkyNet


On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, John A. Kinsella wrote:

> Hi.
> I'm running Ubuntu Edgy Edge on both work & home desktop machines.
>
> I ssh in from home to work and all is well.
>
> Except that after about 15 mins the connection drops.
>
> Presumably I need to change a setting in  /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> on work box?
>
> I tried Googling on this but no luck.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
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> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Justin Mason wrote:
>
>> 
>> Robert Sweetnam writes:
>>> Rick Moen wrote:
>>>> Quoting Philip Creevy (tiger98 at iol.ie):
>>>> 
>>>> My own nameserver already proclaims itself authoritative for a number of
>>>> advertising and spying-on-the-user (or "metrics", depending on your
>>>> degree of cynicism) domains I have absolutely no use for:
>>> Excellent advice and information,
>>> 
>>> Indeed there was another thread on ILUG recently, again about OpenDNS,
>>> where Colm Buckley mentioned that if you have a broadband connection
>>> there is no reason not to run your own DNS server (resolver).
>>> 
>>> As Rick mentioned, one of the main advantages is that you can block
>>> certain URL's. Of course this involves some initial setup but on top of
>>> everything else, running a caching DNS server at home will be
>>> educational to say the least and of course quicker.
>> 
>> Yep.  And either way will be more reliable and safer than using a typical
>> consumer ISP's nameservers... the latest trick these days is ISPs cutting
>> off connections for using SpamAssassin:
>> http://daryl.dostech.ca/blog/2006/12/31/rogers-nxdomain-means-nxservice-for-you/
>> 
>> Impressively inept.
>> 
>> --j.
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