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Asked: 2012-03-28 08:03:00 +0800 CST

SSH known_hosts holds duplicate keys for same server

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I notice my local ~/.ssh/known_hosts file has two entries for the same machine on the local LAN:

 somemachine,192.168.1.200 ssh-rsa KEY...
 somemachine.search.domain ssh-rsa KEY...

It's the same key, the second one doesn't have the IP though. Is this just a result of having a search domain and so the known_hosts file must contain the "duplicate" key?

SSH won't detect it is visiting the same machine regardless of the hostname you attempt to connect with? 'SSH 192.168.1.200' does not request to create a new known_host so could I change the known_host to:

 somemachine,somemachine.search.domain,192.168.1.200 ssh-rsa KEY...

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ssh ssh-keys known-hosts

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  1. Best Answer

    It is because you must have used ssh somemachine and ssh somemachine.search.domain in the past, which creates 2 different entries. In ubuntu this is how my entries were created, in any case.

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