# Hosts with the same host name but different SSH ports? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** ansible-project\ **Created:** [September 12, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hosts-with-the-same-host-name-but-different-ssh-ports/11886 "2012-09-12T21:53:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hosts-with-the-same-host-name-but-different-ssh-ports/11886/1 "2012-09-12T21:53:28Z")
Yes. You can give them named aliases in resolv.conf and name them in the inventory file like this: [somegroup] foo ansible\_ssh\_port=1234 bar ansible\_ssh\_port=1235 ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Bolgarov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@Alex\_Bolgarov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alex_Bolgarov)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hosts-with-the-same-host-name-but-different-ssh-ports/11886/2 "2012-09-14T14:54:23Z")
I was hoping that there is a way to do this without editing system config (like resolve.conf) May be in some future version we may have something like this: [somegroup] foo ansible\_ssh\_port=1234 bar ansible\_ssh\_port=1235 real\_host\_name=foo ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hosts-with-the-same-host-name-but-different-ssh-ports/11886/3 "2012-09-14T16:02:55Z")
well sure. There are two things that should be supported actually ansible\_ssh\_user -- overrides an user at the connection plugin level ansible\_ssh\_host -- overrides the host name at the connect plugin level This needs to be done for both paramiko and SSH connection types and I'll take a patch.