Dealing with roaming machines

[Darren Tucker]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:51 AM, martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net>
wrote:
[...]

> I'd kinda like OpenSSH to connect to all three IPs at once, since
> only one will ever be answered at any one time.


You could do that with a ProxyCommand: have it connect() to all addresses
returned by DNS, use the first one to return and close the others.  Writing
such a tool would be fair simple, and I would be surprised if something
like that doesn't already exist.


> Or it should try them in quick succession.
>

Try "ConnectTimeout 1s" or similar in your config for that host.

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