Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:55:15 +0100 Message-ID: <7376-Thu30May2002125515+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Michael Wardle" Cc: Subject: AW: ssh and name resolution In-Reply-To: References: <3CF57593.8020302@adacel.com> > I've just installed the latest version of Cygwin I could find on my > local mirror (2.218?), and am having some intruging problems. > > The first is: > I have a local host called "meerkat" that I want to connect to via ssh. > When I issue "ssh meerkat", I get a warning: > "The authenticity of host 'meerkat(202.50.84.15)' can't be established" > Yet meerkat is a host on my local 192.168.x.x subnet. > "nslookup meerkat" returns the expected IP address in 192.168.x.x. I always get this when I connect to a new host for the first time. I don't think it has anything to do with Cygwin. SSH does not have the host's key in its known_hosts file (or something like that) so cannot guarantee that it's IP address isn't being spoofed. Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/