Re: [TCLUG:14129] SSH Help

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

From the looks of it, AllowHosts and DenyHosts are specific to resolvable
hostname.  Direct IP will not work.  Also, if the hostnames aren't known
natively to the machine itself, SSH will not allow connections.  I don't
use SSH2, but I do recall that the original SSH is very picky about static
host definitions in the configs.  For example, if a.mydomain.org resolves
to 123.123.123.123 and SSHD_CONFIG allows connections from a.mydomain.org,
a `ssh user@123.123.123.123` will not work unless that IP is added to the
config file.

Peter Lukas

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Jonathan Kline wrote:

> Okay is there any reason why ssh would work if you do ssh user@localhost
> but if you do user@ip or user@hostname  the server rejects the connection?
> Also the server denys all connections to external hosts and that is not
> what we want!
> 
> Attached is the Config files for SSH2
> 
> 
> Thanks, Jon
>