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

[Markus Friedl]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:26:04PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 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.

you want to fix this? :)