Simon Hollenbach <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Sun, 5 Jul 2026 at 21:40, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have a VPS called isbd.biz and I access it using ssh. My user > > account on both my local machine (desktop and laptop) is 'chris' and > > my user account on isbd.biz is also 'chris'. > > > > I have account 'chris' on isbd.biz set up to allow login only using > > public key authentication. > > > > The ip address of isbd.biz is 213.171.194.64. > > > > If I log in with 'ssh 213.171.194.64' I, correctly, get prompted for > > my local system's public key passphrase and I can log in successfully. > > > > However if I try 'ssh isbd.biz' I get prompted for "[email protected]'s > > password" which doesn't exist and I can't log in. > Your domain also has an AAAA record, could it be that ssh is trying to > reach that instead of the IP you tested above? > You should be able to test this by forcing SSH to use IPv4, using `ssh > -4 isbd.biz`. Sprinkle in some `--verbose` flags if you still don't > understand what's going on, you can repeat `--verbose` or use multiple > `-v`s in a row, e.g. `ssh -vvv [...]` to increase verbosity further. > Brilliant! That's what was causing the oddity.
I can fix the issue simply by adding an entry in ~/.ssh/config but I wanted to understand (better) what was going on. Thanks! :-) -- Chris Green ยท
