some commands (like sql-sync) wont respect ssh-options/ssh-port of sitealias

My apologies if this is a duplicate. I searched in the queue and have spent a couple hours trying to debug.

In short, I am trying to do an sql-sync from a production server to a development server, via the development server. Both have non-standard ports.

Here is the verbose, debug sql-sync output:

[/data/sites/dev.site.org] $ drush --debug sql-sync @prod @dev
Found command: sql-sync (commandfile=sql) [0.07 sec, 3.86 MB]      [bootstrap]
Including /data/drush/commands/sql/sync.sql.inc [0.07 sec, 3.86 MB]        [bootstrap]
Load alias @dev [0.07 sec, 4.04 MB]         [notice]
Load alias @prod [0.07 sec, 4.05 MB]        [notice]
Running: ssh -o PasswordAuthentication=no 'alan'@'site.org' 'drush  --all --ssh-options='\''-p 8888'\'' --root='\''/data/sites/site.org'\''                [command]
--uri='\''site.org'\'' sql-conf --backend' [0.08 sec, 4.06 MB]
Undefined offset:  1 backend.inc:112 [0.11 sec, 4.07 MB]   [notice]
Undefined variable: output backend.inc:119 [0.11 sec, 4.08 MB]      [notice]
                                              [error]ned: ssh: connect to host site.org port 22: Connection refused
, code: 255) [0.11 sec, 4.08 MB]
Running: /usr/bin/php /data/drush/drush.php --php=/usr/bin/php  --all --root='/data/sites/dev.site.org' --uri='dev.site.org' sql-conf --backend [0.11      [command]
sec, 4.08 MB]
Error: no database record could be found for @prod [0.5 sec, 4.1 MB]    [error]
An error occurred at function : drush_sql_sync [0.5 sec, 4.1 MB]    [error]
Command dispatch complete [0.5 sec, 4.1 MB]     [notice]
Peak memory usage was 4.11 MB [0.5 sec, 4.1 MB] 

Here is my alias file:

/**
 * @file
 * Drush Aliases for Alan
 */
 
// QA
$aliases['qa'] = array(
  'uri' => 'qa.site.org',
  'root' => '/data/sites/qa.site.org',
);
 
// Dev
$aliases['dev'] = array(
  'uri' => 'dev.site.org',
  'root' => '/data/sites/dev.site.org',
);
 
// Production
$aliases['prod'] = array(
  'uri' => 'site.org',
  'root' => '/data/sites/site.org',
  'remote-host' => 'site.org',
  'remote-user' => 'alan',
  'ssh-options' => '-p 8888',
);

And finally here is my drushrc.php file:

// $Id$

/**
 * @file
 * Drush settings for Alan
 */

// General Drush settings
// Turn on verbose
$options['v'] = 1;

From doing some debugging, and looking at the debug output. The port is not being specified on the ssh command to get the database settings. Though, this is confusing because sql-conf works fine.

[/data/sites/dev.site.org] $ drush --debug @prod sql-conf
Begin redispatch via backend invoke [0.08 sec, 3.97 MB]    [notice]
Running: ssh -p 8888 'alan'@'site.org' 'drush  --ssh-options='\''-p 8888'\'' --debug --uri='\''site.org'\'' --root='\''/data/sites/site.org'\''   [command]
sql-conf --backend' [0.08 sec, 3.98 MB]
Drush bootstrap phase : _drush_bootstrap_drush() [0.47 sec, 3.98 MB]  [bootstrap]
Drush bootstrap phase : _drush_bootstrap_drupal_root() [0.47 sec, 3.99 MB]  [bootstrap]
Initialized Drupal 5.22 root directory at /data/sites/site.org [0.47 sec, 3.99 MB]  [notice]
Drush bootstrap phase : _drush_bootstrap_drupal_site() [0.47 sec, 3.99 MB] [bootstrap]
Initialized Drupal site site.org at sites/default [0.47 sec, 3.99 MB]   [notice]
Drush bootstrap phase : _drush_bootstrap_drupal_configuration() [0.47 sec, 3.99 MB]   [bootstrap]
Found command: sql-conf (commandfile=sql) [0.47 sec, 3.99 MB]  [bootstrap]
Command dispatch complete [0.47 sec, 3.99 MB]         [notice]
Peak memory usage was 5.95 MB [0.47 sec, 3.99 MB]     [memory]
Array
(
    [driver] => mysql
    [username] => site
    [port] => 
    [host] => localhost
    [database] => sitedb
)
Backend invoke is complete [0.47 sec, 3.98 MB]  

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and great module.