SSH - ssh ConnectTimeout option
by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: December 22 2020
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With the ssh command, the ConnectTimeout option can, as the name implies, timeout if the connection fails after a certain period of time. In this example, the connection will time out after 5 seconds.
ssh -o ConnectTimeout=5 john.doe@server1.example.com
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