Which server will ssh app-prod actually contact? The answer is not necessarily the last Host block you remember editing. OpenSSH may combine command-line options, a per-user file, lexically ordered Include files, wildcard rules, a system file, and built-in defaults before it selects a hostname, user, port, identity, ...

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