connecting to non-responding hosts: 1 hr timeout (fwd)

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

[..]
> The reason I needed it in ssh was that I wanted to use ssh to initialize
> /etc/ssh_known_hosts from the list of hosts in /etc/hosts.equiv but there
> were a lot of dead hosts in there and it was taking forever to go through
> the whole list.
>

Correct me if I'm wrong.. but you should be using ssh-keyscan for such a
task.

- Ben