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  1. Bug #483928
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Comment 13 for bug 483928

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In , Daniel Richard G. (skunk) wrote :

I reported this a while ago on the Ubuntu Launchpad bug tracker:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/openssh/+bug/483928

I've also confirmed that the bug persists in OpenSSH 5.8p1, and I gave your patch a try to scan a corporate network of 6000+ hosts.

Most of the hosts don't appear to be running SSH, but I can't be sure if that's really the case, or if ssh-keyscan(1) is bugging out on many of the connections. It does run through to the end of the list, but with some anomalies, like "Connection closed by A.B.C.D" or "Received disconnect from A.B.C.D: 2: Client Disconnect" messages that crop up multiple times for the same IP address.

Is it possible that one bad connection can still take down active good connections, even with this patch?