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

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 2 May 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> > 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.

ssh-keyscan does not support Protocol 2 the last I checked; a very major
(and known) issue.

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