Hello, I found a problem with port forwardings specified in the config file. The following is run on OpenSSH 6.7p1: Assume the following ~/.ssh/config: Host some.host.name.com foo Hostname some.host.name.com DynamicForward 55555 When connecting to the real hostname everything is fine: $ ssh -v some.host.name.com ... debug1: Local connections to LOCALHOST:55555 forwarded to remote address socks:0 debug1: Local forwarding listening on ::1 port 55555. debug1: channel 0: new [port listener] debug1: Local forwarding listening on 127.0.0.1 port 55555. debug1: channel 1: new [port listener] ... But when using the short nickname: $ ssh -v foo ... debug1: Hostname has changed; re-reading configuration ... debug1: Local connections to LOCALHOST:55555 forwarded to remote address socks:0 debug1: Local forwarding listening on ::1 port 55555. debug1: channel 0: new [port listener] debug1: Local forwarding listening on 127.0.0.1 port 55555. debug1: channel 1: new [port listener] debug1: Local connections to LOCALHOST:55555 forwarded to remote address socks:0 debug1: Local forwarding listening on ::1 port 55555. bind: Address already in use debug1: Local forwarding listening on 127.0.0.1 port 55555. bind: Address already in use channel_setup_fwd_listener_tcpip: cannot listen to port: 55555 ... The reason is that in the second case OpenSSH reparses the config and then tries to adds the same forwarding rules again. I looked into the source and there is a method compare_forward() in mux.c that is used to prevent adding of duplicates. Maybe that should be used also when parsing the config or commandline in ssh.c / readconf.c? Regards, Sebastian _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev