Setting up SSH proxy for only some servers in Linux

Question

I followed the steps described in http://returnbooleantrue.blogspot.com/2009/06/using-github-through-draconian-proxies.html, but then connecting to the internal server fails:

Proxy could not open connnection to 192.168.1.***:  Forbidden
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Network connection closed unexpectedly

Can I set up config file so that ProxyCommand is only used for ssh.github.com?

Answer 1

Absolutely. Put that directive in a separate Host stanza.

Host github-external
    HostName ssh.github.com
    ProxyCommand dosomethinghere

Then use github-external as the hostname.