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Possible that this was a feature added after this event?

• dijit 3y ago
  possible, but I see recommendations along these lines going back to 2011 https://serverfault.com/questions/284566/configuration-for-multiple-port-ssh https://serverfault.com/questions/284566/configuration-for-m...
  • jrockway 3y ago
    I feel like the blink tag part of the story dates it to before 2011. (I just tested to see if blink tags still worked. It did not.)
    • fiddlerwoaroof 3y ago
      Unless it’s anonymized, Hurricane Jeanne dates it to 2004
      • btilly 3y ago
        That fits the "almost 20 years ago" line in the blog post.
        • jrockway 3y ago
          That's hilarious. I missed that line and the name of the hurricane line. But blink tags, those stick with me.
• tedunangst 3y ago
  Multiple ports have been supported for more than 20 years.
• hnlmorg 3y ago
  I remember doing some relatively complex stuff with SSH config 15 or 20 years ago with IP filtering, different users having different chroots, IP forwarding rules based users connecting and rules around what SSH clients / protocols were allowed. Part of that was also defining custom ports too. All of which were just defined in sshd_config. None of this was new stuff back then. It just wasn’t well blogged (in fact it was so poorly written about that my very first blog post was on exactly this topic. Blog is long gone now though). However if anyone took the time to read the man pages, you’d see all the functionality is already backed into openssh