On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 05:53:03PM -0800, Ben Greenbaum wrote:
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> From: Jag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> > This does not happen on my machine using glibc-2.2 and openssh-2.3.0p1
> > following your example.
> I have reproduced it with glibc-2.2 and openssh-2.3.0p1 The key is that
> you must actually ssh to a valid host. If ssh can't resolve the host,
> it won't display the contents of the file.
This is not true. host.conf file is read _before_ the actual query takes
place, as its options affect how the query is done. It does not matter what
hostname is passed to the resolver.
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