[PLUG] Getting ssh working again
Russ Johnson
russj at dimstar.net
Wed Apr 30 11:17:02 UTC 2003
* 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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