You reverse lookups are not working for the machine you are connecting from. Either add a hosts entry or convince your ISP to setup reverse lookups. But localhost.BS1.srv.t-online.de does not look like a hostanem they would want to add a PTR record for ;-), so I guess it's hosts files for you.
Buchan Brad Felmey wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 08:26, Robert Fox wrote: > > >>The hostname on the machine is automagically picked for me during the >>latest install - and here's what I get when I try to connect from >>another machine: >> >> >>[robert@amda7v robert]$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.100' (RSA) to the list of known >>hosts. >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: >>Permission denied, please try again. >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: >>Last login: Fri Mar 1 00:14:03 2002 >>/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority >>/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name >>"localhost.BS1.srv.t-online.de:10.0" in "add" command >>[root@localhost root]# >> > > I can confirm this behavior on 3 different machines updated to current > ssh rpms, using either IP or hostname, it makes no difference. > -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/gpg.key