Re: SFTP client Expect 5.43 via PASE intermittently failing

If this message "ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer" is consistently the one that appears on failure then it occurs when the client makes a connection and tries to read the initial SSH banner. The read fails. This indicates that a connection to the SSH server application has not been made or it is dropped immediately before any exchange occurs. I would suspect it is being dropped at the firewall but that's a WAG.

On 1/20/2016 4:34 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:

idk...98.8889% up time for a non-robust process seems pretty good.

By non-robust, I mean it doesn't apparently have any built in retries.

If the connection failure is during the handshake as the OP seems to
imply. Then as Scott pointed out the involvement of DNS over UDP; then the
non-robustness of UDP comes into play.

The app should be robust enough to try again.

Now if the reset is coming in the middle of the process, yeah maybe
something is funny.

Charles


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would be VERY unhappy with 40 connection failures in 60 days. Something
is wobbly there.


On 1/20/2016 2:53 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

X is the login grace time that's set in the server's sshd config. The

default is 120 seconds. The login process should be sub second. 40
failures
in 60 days is extraordinarily high.


​40 failures in 3600 attempts over 60 days doesn't seem to bad to me.

Just
over 1%...

Charles
​

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