X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45F97947.6060401@bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:50:15 -0600 From: "Charles D. Russell" Reply-To: worwor AT bellsouth DOT net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin cygwin Subject: RE: Accessing remote PC (ssh?) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > 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). _______________________ 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? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/