Re: ssh: Could not resolve hostname

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 14 09:00, Tomas Jankovic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after update all packages ssh cannot recognize host with upper case
> letter in name in config file. I have tried install older version of
> ssh, but
> nothing has changed. For example I have this record in my config file:
> 
> $ cat ~/.ssh/config
> Host Example
>  hotname 127.0.0.1
> 
> $ ssh -vvv Example
> OpenSSH_6.5, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
> debug1: Reading configuration data ~/.ssh/config
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> ssh: Could not resolve hostname example: Name or service not known
> 
> If I have changed it to (small e in beginning of name):
> 
> $ cat ~/.ssh/config
> Host example
>  hotname 127.0.0.1
> 
> $ ssh -vvv example
> OpenSSH_6.5, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014
> debug1: Reading configuration data ~/.ssh/config
> debug1: ~/.ssh/config line 1: Applying options for example
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> debug1: Connecting to 127.0.0.1 [127.0.0.1] port 22.
> 
> Workaround is use only lower case letters in name of host, but it is
> only workaround. Before update it has worked.

Known bug in OpenSSH-6.5p1.  It has been fixed upstream already,
but there's no new version yet.


Corinna

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