On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:53:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- E-mail dmaziuk at bmrb dot wisc dot edu (@work) or at crosswinds dot net (@home) http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/descript/gpgkey.dmaziuk.ascii -- GnuPG 1.0.4 public key We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris King in asr
