Re: how to force an ssh client timeout

> I need to do this on the ssh client side e.g. if I
> can not log into a given machine in 10 seconds
> I want to terminate/close the connection and move 
> on to the next machine. Please note that you may
> get/establish a TCP connection to the remote server but it
> may, for some reason, just stay/hang there and
> you may not be able to log in

Set up in your ssh connection a local port forward.  Test
in 10 seconds if this forward is alive.  If not, kill the connection.

Here's some perl-style pseudo code:

        sub sshto {
                $host=@_;

                if ( fork ) {
                        wait
                }
                $sshpid = fork();
                if ( $sshpid ) {
                        sleep 10;
                        use IO::Socket;
                        if ( IO::Socket::INET->new(
                               Proto    => "tcp",
                               PeerAddr => "localhost",
                               PeerPort => $LOCALPORT
                         ) {
                                 exit;
                         } else {
                                 kill 9, $sshpid
                         }
                 } else {
                        exec "ssh -L $LOCALPORT:localhost:22 $SSH_ARGS $host"
                }
        }

Since the forward won't exist until ssh has logged in, you should
be able to catch if it's dead or not.


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