Making sftp and ssh work on cygwin

[Alexander Skwar]

Marielle Fois <marielle.fois@buongiorno.com>:

> Hello,
> 
> I recently downloaded cygwin and I've been trying to make ssh and sftp 
> work with no success. When I run these commands I get these outputs:
> 
> $ ssh user@142.268.10.26
> 
> $ sftp user@142.268.10.26
> Connecting to 142.268.10.26...
> Connection closed

142.268.10.26 is not a legal name, as hostnames cannot contain
ONLY numbers. And it's also not an IP, as IP's cannot be larger
than 255, but 268 is.

Alexander Skwar


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