openssh host selection

David Newall openssh at davidnewall.com
Tue Feb 6 20:17:21 AEDT 2018


On 06/02/18 19:31, Pujan Shah wrote:
> How does openssh handle dns roundrobin?

I needed to know this so I experimented, by creating a name with four 
addresses, only one of which was live.  I found that SSH tried each 
address, in the order returned by the resolver, until the connect succeeded.



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