[ec2-beta] Startup error?

[Don Coleman]

You're seeing this because Amazon is reusing a hostname from a  
previous ec2 run.  The new VM has different ssh keys. I just delete  
the line from ~/.ssh/known_hosts and ssh in again.

On May 3, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Micah Walter <micahwalter at me.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Sometimes when I spin up a new instance I get this error message when
> trying to ssh or scp for the first time...
>
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> @    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
> Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle
> attack)!
> It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
> The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
>
>
> There is more info that I didn't copy there... anyway, it seems like
> this happens when I try to ssh or scp to the new instance too quickly.
> However, once I get this message I am pretty sure that I am not able
> to log into this instance and I have to terminate it and begin again.
> I haven't really tested this to see if I just need to wait it out a
> little longer... In the AWS Console it says that my instance is
> running...
>
> anyone else seen this? I am getting this on both the older beta i386
> image for Intrepid as well as the newer RC1..
>
> -micah
>
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