> I can't replicate this. Using 5.4 and localhost instead of example.com, > "ssh -ouserknownhostsfile=/dev/null localhost" shows no visual hostkey, > while "ssh -ouserknownhostsfile=/dev/null 127.0.0.1" does. OK - so I'll assume its been fixed. (I searched bugzilla but couldn't find any report) Sorry for the noise.