dbclient - banner too long?

[Scott Sturdivant]

Using dropbear 0.50 (I know there's a more recent, but didn't see any 
changelog notes about this issue), if I try to use dbclient to connect to 
a host that has a long banner (1553 chars), I get the following error:

dbclient: connection to user at host:22 exited: string too long

On this particular host, I do not have access to change the banner. 
However on a different machine that I do have access to, I did change its 
banner and confirmed that indeed when using the longer one, dbclient gives 
the 'string too long' error and aborts.

Are there any workarounds for this?

Thanks,

Scott