I got "Failed to connect after 6 attempts . . ."

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I got "Failed to connect after 6 attempts . . ."
Christopher Brooks, 28 Aug 2001

If you use CVS several times in succession, then you may see a message like

Failed to connect after 6 attempts, try again in a few minutes or use
    '-oConnectionAttempts 1000'
    cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if
    any)

The reason that this occurs is because Windoze does not close sockets promptly. The fix is to create or edit c:/ssh/etc/ssh_config and add

Host *
     ConnectionAttempts 100