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Hi Damien/all, Since github etc use a potentially large number of IP addresses (albeit with a small number of keys), I'd like more granular oversight over their entries in my known_hosts. Eg, here is a simplified stanza from my current ssh config: Host github gitlab User git Hostname %h.com UserKnownHostsFile ~/.ssh/known_hosts.d/git There doesn't seem to be a good way to filter only certain hosts from that UserKnownHostsFile. When looking to remove outdated entries, I'd like to be able to tell which IP addresses and keys belonged to, say, GitHub -- at any time in the past. I wondered if...

As of version 3.0.2p1 and perhaps earlier localhost forwarded connections are checked in known_hosts. The difficulty is that if you have multiple forwards, only one of them will exist as a valid host key for localhost. All the others will be treated as a "Changed" key prompting reduced functionality including disallowing agent-forwarding. Depending on StrictHostKeyChecking being set,