My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions

Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by Mediterraneo10 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:05AM (#25745221)

Whenever I have got a new Raspberry Pi or PinePhone and connect it to the home network, I always SSH to the raw IP first. (Sure, at some point I’ll configure the router’s DHCP settings to ensure the new device gets a stable IP address, and then I can just use an SSH alias.) I would imagine that this is a very common use case.

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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by lmm on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:54PM (#25756443)

I got a new NAS last week and only ever sshed to [hostname].local. Didn't have to configure my router at all. Come to think of it I don't even know (or care) whether I was SSHing via IPv4 or IPv6.

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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by fsh on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:46AM (#25745566)

Any decent home router will automatically add the hostname of all DHCP(v6)-configured devices to its DNS service. You shouldn't need raw addresses at all.

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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by msh on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:40AM (#25759309)

I have not seen any routers that do it, my ubiquity amplifi router certainly does not do that.

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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by lmm on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:00PM (#25770336)

That's very strange given that every cheapo ISP router I've had does that. How did you confirm that it doesn't?

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