ssh 6669:irc.freenode.net:6667 michael@host.domain.org
then i run the irc client on the localhost and connect as usual, however, whois looks like this:
[irc_nick] (root@ip.host.domain.org) : My Full Name
both the localhost and the remote host are at openssh-3.5p1-107 and this somewhat bad behavior began after the upgrade. the sshd_config is the stock that came with the rpm. am i missing something?
Do the following: host host.domain.org host <resulting IP address from above> The result of which is most likely ip.host.domain.org, because host.domain.org's IP address does not reverse-resolve to host.domain.org, but to ip.host.domain.org. If I misunderstood the problem and "ip." means there is an ip address in the hostname, then this looks like a nameserver zonefile problem (trailing "." missing, zone file corrupt). That should turn out by resolving the IP addresses, though. It doesn't look like ssh/openssh is responsible for the strange things you see...
-- michael
Thanks,
Roman.
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