Paramiko SSH Tunnel Shutdown Issue

Question

I\'m working on a python script to query a few remote databases over an established ssh tunnel every so often. I\'m fairly familiar with the paramiko library, so that was my cho

Answer 1

It appears the SocketServer's shutdown method isn't properly shutting down/closing the socket. With the below changes in my code, I retain access to the SocketServer object and access the socket directly to close it. Note that socket.close() works in my case, but others might be interested in socket.shutdown() followed by a socket.close() if other resources are accessing that socket.

[Ref: socket.shutdown vs socket.close

def ThreadTunnel():
    self.t = ForwardServer(('127.0.0.1', 3333), SubHandler)
    self.t.serve_forever()
Thread(target=ThreadTunnel).start()

def stopTunnel(self):
    self.t.shutdown()
    self.trans.close()
    self.c.close()
    self.t.socket.close()