On March 31, 2005 01:45 pm, quoth A. Khattri: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Robert Persson wrote: > > I have been trying to get ssh to start behaving and, among other > > problems, I am unable to get ssh/sshd - one of the two - to deal with > > hostnames properly. > > > > For instance I have just been trying to ssh into the machine I am working > > on. In /etc/hosts is the line "192.168.1.2 zebedee". However "ssh > > 192.168.1.2" works, while "ssh zebedee" gets me a "connection refused" > > error. I get the same problem when I try to log in from a remote OSX > > powerbook. However I did not get this problem when I was running SuSE > > 9.2. > > > > Why can't I use a hostname to log in? > > What's in resolv.conf?
bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain magicroundabout nameserver 209.53.4.130 nameserver 64.114.195.135 nameserver 209.53.4.150 -- Robert Persson "No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
