Re: SSH (testing) FYI

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu wrote:
>Just FYI: ssh-2.5.2p2-2.1 does not understand that hostname and
>hostname.domain refer to the same server. You might want to 
>edit your ~/.ssh/known_hosts and change hostnames to
>hostname,hostname.domain ...
>Otherwise ssh will happily put in duplicate lines for short and
>FQDN hostnames.

I thought this had been the case for much longer than that - I saw it at
least as far back as when potato was unstable. You could add blocks like
this to ~/.ssh/config if you like:

Host foo
        HostName foo.example.com

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]