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workarounds for Host param not canonicalizing?

Subject: workarounds for Host param not canonicalizing?
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:21:11 -0700 (PDT)
hi all. the Host parameter in ssh_config matches against the hostname typed on the command line, as opposed to the canonicalized host name. this is to prevent DNS spoofing attacks, which is a Good Thing...

...but it does hurt usability if you routinely ssh to lots of machines. instead of "Host *.foo.com", you have to use "Host abc def ghi ...". needless to say, this is error-prone and hard to maintain.

does anyone have any tips for handling this? (i use openssh versions 3.6 through 3.9, on linux and openbsd.) thanks in advance...

-Ryan

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