Re: SSH (testing) FYI
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:53:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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
Well, it should have been the case (arguably, ssh shouldn't trust resolver
when it says "foo" and "foo.localdomain" are the same host).
However it wasn't: I had
host.domain,ip.addr ...
in my known_hosts and "ssh host" worked with that. Until today's upgrade of
ssh.
Dima
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