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by aofeisheng 1686 days ago
The idea behind Mosh is almost perfect. Unfortunately, it's just a proof-of-concept project that has not been maintained for years. Although it has met my daily needs, I'm still looking for a better alternative because of some known bugs.

I had hoped on draft-bider-ssh-quic [1], but unfortunately it was marked as "no longer active".

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bider-ssh-quic/

4 comments

Mosh isn't proof of concept. And it's not not maintained either. It's just "done" (in my opinion).

Not all software needs to continually change. There is the concept of software that does one thing, and does it well.

THAT BEING SAID... if your complaint is regarding the SSH agent forwarding, I might be convinced to maintain a fork with that, and only that problem being addressed. :) That one's personal to me, and I've been meaning to poke at it since... well before it was released to the outside MIT community.

What bugs? Mosh isn’t a proof of concept. It’s a stable project.

https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh

It’s stable, but that doesn’t mean feature complete, no release in over four years in spite of various fixes / github commit activity. Additionally the support for jumpbox/bastion pass through have been languishing even longer than that (https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/pull/696)
Email the author? It does seem like ssh-over-quic would be a reasonable way forward.
I'm curious: what bugs are keeping mosh from meeting your daily needs?