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2020-Jan-27 22:26 UTC
[Bug 1602] ssh: doesn't handle IPv6 addresses with brackets
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602 --- Comment #5 from Marc Herbert <marc.herbert+mindrot at gmail.com> ---> ssh does _now_ support...Could you be a bit more specific wrt the exact feature and timing? Ideally refer to some changelog, commit, release note etc.?> ... the ssh: URI scheme that supports square-bracket delimited hostnames.I don't understand how hostnames matter to this feature request 1602. It was very specifically about literal IPv6 addresses. For hostnames I expect ssh to merely invoke getaddrinfo and follow the system policy in gai.conf or equivalent. Forcing IPv4 or IPv6 can already be done with -4 or -6 so I hope hostname syntax is irrelevant to IPv4/v6.> We don't plan on changing this for plain hostnames,Why would ssh treat plain hostnames differently from FQDNs? For anything, not just IPv6. I see this has been closed as "WONTFIX" again so I'm not going to re-open it again but I'm afraid I really don't understand the newer rationale(s) either. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug. You are watching the assignee of the bug.