How to change SSH hostnames based on guessed location

I just came across a really handy post on David Busby‘s blog: Enable logging in the SFTP subsystem - Oneiroi. From OpenSSH 4.4 on, you can pass arguments to Subsystem calls, and the sftp subsystem supports logging to an aribtrary syslog facility and priority. Simply adding a line like …

There’s a known issue with the SSH implementation in the iLO firmware for HP Proliant servers (specifically G2 and G3) and OpenSSH 5.1p1. There was a thread on the OpenSSH developers list that referenced this problem and suggested a solution, but it doesn’t seem to be a …