[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 -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]