[PLUG] Getting ssh working again

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Kyle Accardi wrote:

> Are you not using dhcp at home?

  Nope. /etc/hosts on each host.

> Either way, how about creating a small script (or X launcher) for both
> kinds of connections?
> 
> from_road.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> # I'm on the road
> /usr/bin/ssh -f me at myisp.com xterm
> 
> from_home.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> #I'm home
> /usr/bin/ssh -f mylan xterm

  I suspect that this won't work. When I use the local IP addresses I can
get into the two workstations, when I try their names ssh resolves them to
the external IP address. Perhaps it's using the DNS server at my ISP.

  What puzzles me about this situation is that I regularly ssh between the
two workstations, addressing each by host name, 'salmo' and 'caddis'. Since
we're all on the same lan here, I don't understand why I cannot do the same
from 'lemna'.

  Could this have anything to do with where sshd is running -- or not
running?

Thanks,

Rich

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