Assure that host entries in known_hosts files do not duplicate endlessly if keys from known_hosts are loaded via HostKeys.load() more than once (e.g. for refreshing the list of known hosts during runtime).

paramiko/hostkeys.py

@@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ class HostKeys (UserDict.DictMixin):
                 continue
             e = HostKeyEntry.from_line(line)
             if e is not None:
+                _hostnames = e.hostnames
+                for h in _hostnames:
+                    if self.check(h, e.key):
+                        e.hostnames.remove(h)
+                if len(e.hostnames):
                     self._entries.append(e)
         f.close()