Re: can passwordless SSH work without DNS ?

From: Neil Zanella (nzanella@cs.mun.ca)
Date: 02/27/02 

From: nzanella@cs.mun.ca (Neil Zanella)
Date: 27 Feb 2002 11:50:33 -0800

Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> wrote in message news:<a5gba0$o68$1@husk.cso.niu.edu>...
> Neil Zanella <nzanella@garfield.cs.mun.ca> writes:
>
> >I happen to be stuck with two accounts from two different providers and
> >both do not offer dns although both of them once did. So I have two IPs
> >with no associated hostname. I also have a third IP from one of these
> >providers which does come with dns. I notice that whenever I use one
> >of the hostnameless computers I cannot do passwordless ssh whereas
> >with all hostname possessing computers I have come across this is
> >possible. On the hostnameless computers I am running OpenSSH 2.9p2-11.
>
> It works for me (OpenSSH 3.0.2p1). I use public key authentication.
> In my ".ssh/config" file, I set "HostbaseAuthentication=no" and
> "RhostsRSAAuthentication=nl". Those settings stop the server from
> attempting to validate the hostname of my connecting system. It
> still works without those settings, but I then get messages logged
> about mismatch between the DNS hostname and the hostname given by the
> SSH client.

Thanks for your feedback.
I tried placing the lines
HostbasedAuthentication no
RhostsRSAAuthentication no
in my ~/.ssh/config file but that did not solve my problem.
I think that perhaps the same lines must be configured on the
server for this to work but I do not have root access to it.
The error message I get when trying to connect is always:
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

Thanks,

Neil

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