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Putty freezes at random when logging into a remote machine in another continent

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 202629376 views
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I have to ssh to a remote machine in Europe from Asia every day for my work. But Putty freezes sometimes at totally random times and I have no choice but to close and re-open a new ssh session. It's frustrating especially when I'm editing something or executing a long running program. I know the qu…

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Fix for: Putty freezes at random when logging into a remote machine in another continent

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The easiest solution I've found is to press ctrl-q which resumes the flow control. Normally you press ctrl-s for saving, which I find highly annoying in putty, I thought it was freezing up at first, but it's actually turning off flow control, ctrl-q…

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