strange issue with bash-completion and .ssh/config host entries

[Panagiotis Atmatzidis]

Greetings,

Isn't a better to use /etc/hosts for pointing hostnames to specific?  
imho it's better for two reasons:

1) it's system wide and it's the standard procedure
2) you don't get this kind of issues in specific program updgrades  
that require hostnames resolv

I even use dnsmasq configured on my LAN to avoid this kind of fuzz.


regards


On 12 Αυγ 2009, at 3:14 ΠΜ, eliott wrote:

> I have two machines that have bash-completion installed via macports.
> They both had the older version of bash-completion (20060301), but
> have been subsequently updated to the current version (1.0).
>
> On both machines, before the upgrade, I had the following 'good'  
> behavior.
>
> if the .ssh/config file had this in it:
>
> host foobar
>  hostname 1.1.1.1
>
> Then at a bash prompt i could type: ssh foo<tab> and it would complete
> to foobar appropriately.
> *Note that I have _no_ data in known_hosts or /etc/hosts for the name
> 'foobar' (removed for testing)*
>
> After the upgrade to bash-completion 1.0, this no longer works on my  
> systems.
> On other another *nix box (centos-5.x) with bash_completion (1.0
> version), this still works, with the same .bashrc and the same
> .ssh/config file as in use on my 10.5 installs.
>
> I have gone so far as to compare the bash_completion and
> bash_completion.d/ssh scripts from macports to the other system. The
> is no functional difference that I can tell. A few comments are
> different, and one function testing for bash-4.0.
>
> The other system has a slightly newer version of bash compared to the
> 10.5 default.
>
> 10.5 -- GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (i386-apple-darwin9.0)
> centos5.3 -- GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux- 
> gnu)
>
> Has anyone else run across this issue, and know a workaround or a fix?
> Is it an issue with bash-completion, or something goofy with the
> version of bash in 10.5?
>
> I appreciate any insight anyone can provide.
>
> --eliott
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