ssh question

[Mark Haney]

You can always setup .ssh/config with the hostname you want to point to the
IP address like this:

Host ngc
   HostName 10.42.204.47
   user root

Though, you should either setup DNS internally if you have a lot of hosts,
or edit /etc/hosts to let you resolve the name.


On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:03 AM, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> I have a raspberry pi that runs max2play.  My router sees this device as
> 'max2play'. However if I try to ssh to it from my Ubuntu machine,
> ssh root at max2play gives:
> 'Could not resolve hostname max2play: Name or service not known'
> I can, of course connect using the IP address.
>
> How do I configure ssh so that I can use the device's name? I tried
> various suggestions.
> ssh-keygen -R max2play, and ssh-keygen -R [IP]
> seemed to work and update the known_hosts, but I still could not connect
> (Name or service not known)
>
> I tried
> >ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root at max2play, but got
> ssh: Could not resolve hostname max2play: Name or service not known
>
> Is there a simple way of aliasing the IP address with the name?
>
> - Richard
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