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RE: Accessing remote PC (ssh?)




Dave Korn wrote:


Sshd does not care about the IP of the machine it's running on.  All it
does is listen on a port.

Ssh stores the hostname/IP in ~/.ssh/known_hosts.  If the IP changes, ssh
may prompt you to accept the host keys again (although this mostly happens
if using raw IPs to connect).

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Truly a prompt, that tells explicitly what to do, or just a message, that requires you to understand something about networking?


My ssh/sshd installation has broken twice. After noticing that IP addresses had changed, I read about DHCP and suspected that to be the problem. I'm not a programmer, just a dumb engineer who normally counts on setup.exe (or in this case the installation scripts) to take care of all the sysadmin stuff.

What I am getting, with a formerly working installation, is:

$ ssh sony06
ssh: sony06: no address associated with name

I have reason to believe, from previous correspondence with this group, that my installation is flaky. I did not reinstall then, because at the time it was working. If I reinstall by means of the scripts, is ssh expected to work without periodic maintenance? (Just within a home WNET using a wireless router with DHCP.) How should I proceed to ensure a clean reinstall?






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