David Newall wrote: > All of this fails to help the original question, which is how to specify > multiple IP addresses. The obvious answer to that is to put multiple A > records into your local DNS. If you don't have a local DNS or have no > control over it, specify multiple Hosts in your config, one for each IP > address. Just some brainstorming here... It should always be possible to populate the local /etc/hosts file as an override to DNS with a local unique name. And then use that local name in the config file. Example /etc/hosts: 93.184.216.34 foo.example.com foo 2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946 foo.example.com foo Example ssh config: Host shortname realname.example.com HostKeyAlias realname.example.com Hostname foo Use like: ssh shortname ssh realname.example.com I tested this just now and on a host with IPv6 connectivity it used the IPv6 address. The same configuration on a host with only IPv4 connectivity used the IPv4 address. It's perhaps not the simplest of configurations but it did seem to fit the criteria. The way to get both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address available to Hostname. By stitching it through the /etc/hosts file. WDYT? Bob _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev