[NTLUG:Discuss] OpenSSH - Newbie Question
Stuart Johnston
saj at thecommune.net
Wed Jul 5 16:11:43 CDT 2006
Bobby Sanders wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 14:23 -0500, brian at pongonova.net wrote:
>> Why don't you just assign your internal machines non-routable IP
>> addresses?
>
> No real reason. (I'm only concerned with 2 or 3 Linux boxes and a couple
> of Windows machines that connect periodically.) It just seemed to be
> the most elegant and extensible way to go.
>
> BTW, I installed SAMBA for the windows machines (use this with the Linux
> machines, too. No problem in Samba with accessing the servers using
> their names. Wonder why ssh is so different.
Samba can use a couple of different name resolution methods including
broadcast resolution. Basically, it will send out a broadcast message
to all computers on the network saying "hey, compt2, are you out
there?". ssh, on the other hand, probably does name resolution through
the underlying OS. A standard Linux setup is only going to use file
(/etc/hosts) and dns (server) methods.
I'm not sure that the Linksys router supports what you are trying to do
but then I'm not quite sure I understand exactly how you have things setup.
One thing to try would be using a full domain name, if you have that
setup. Also, you might start with something simpler, like ping, for
testing.
ping compt2.mydomain.com
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