port forwarding trouble

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sergio Gelato wrote:

> Remind me: why do you need to check for the second ':' before deciding to
> use square brackets? As far as avoiding ambiguity is concerned, I would
> argue that even a single ':' in the host string is enough to warrant
> bracketing.

to avoid breaking known_hosts files that have been working fine for the 
last five years.