Hi Mike,
Thank you for taking the time to submit this bug report
and patch. We have received reports of this previously,
and this will be resolved for a future release.
Thanks for your feedback.
Best Regards,
Stephanie Thomas
SSH Secure Shell
Technical Support Specialist
Mike Austin wrote:
>
> I just installed SSH version 2.4.0 on some of my UNIX hosts. When I try to
> connect to hostnames with multiple IP addresses, it fails with the error:
>
> FATAL: Connecting to "hostname" failed: No address associated to the name
>
> where "hostname" is the name of the cluster I'm trying to connect to.
>
> I noticed a few other people have asked about this by doing a web search,
> but never found an answer to the problem.
>
> So, I took a look at the code, and found out what's going wrong.
>
> In the routine ssh_tcp_get_host_addrs_by_name_sync, if a hostname has
> multiple IP addresses, a comma is supposed to be inserted between the
> addresses. Unfortunately, the code to add that comma is two lines too
> low, so addresses get concatenated together without a comma in the middle.
> By moving the comma inserting loop above the address concatenating call,
> the problem is fix.
>
> I've included the tiny patch. It's attached to this message.
>
> If others have come up with a solution, great. I just thought that I'd
> share.
>
> Should something like this be fed back to the folks at ssh.com?
>
> mga.
> --
> Mike Austin Computing & Information Technology
> Systems Programmer The University of Vermont
> UNIX/DCE Sys Admin 802-656-8785
>
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