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This article is from the SSH - Secure Shell FAQ, by Thomas Koenig Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de with numerous contributions by others.

5.5. Ssh is doing wrong things for multi-homed hosts!

Check whether gethostbyname() really returns the complete lists of
possible IP addresses (you might, for example, have your system
configured to search /etc/hosts first, which might contain only one of
the IP addresses).

 

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