[PLUG] Getting ssh working again

[Russ Johnson]

* Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> [2003-04-30 08:41]:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> 
> > Are you not using dhcp at home?
> 
>   Nope. /etc/hosts on each host.

Actually, that's apples and oranges. DHCP will assign an IP. /etc/hosts
is for looking up other hosts. 

>   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.

Sounds to me like a combination of errors in /etc/resolv.conf and
/etc/nsswitch.conf. 

I'd compare those files on the working box with the same files on the
non-working box. 

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