On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:58:32AM +0300, Lars Nooden wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2013, Lars Nooden wrote:
> [snip]
> > However, the remote machine is still able to use the forwarded port until
> > the connection is finally closed. The same syntax seems to shutdown
> > regular (-L) forwarded ports, just not for reverse (-R) forwarding. What
> > am I missing?
>
> What I was missing was patience. With Chromium and Firefox, the
> connection is kept open for only a short while longer, but definitely not
> immediately shut down. With other programs, the tunnel seems to shut
> right away.
The port should stop listening immediately, but any connections that
were established before the port stopped listening will continue until
they're closed by either end of the forwarded connection or the ssh
connection is forcibly terminated. In your case, I'd guess you were
seeing HTTP/1.1 keep-alives.
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