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>  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?






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