known_hosts and multiple hosts through a NAT router

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Tue Dec 13 12:04:44 EST 2005


On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:14:04AM -0500, Daniel Kopetzky wrote:
> The .ssh/known_hosts table cannot handle reaching different sshd
> servers behind a NAT router. The machines are selected by having
> the SSHDs respond to differnt ports.

Someone else has already pointed out HostKeyAlias.  There's also an
enhancement request to add port identifiers (bug #910).

> A second request would be to allow known_hosts checking solely on
> the dns name

You mean like "CheckHostIP no"?

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