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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:28:06 GMT
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address
Message-ID:  <201302200928.r1K9S64p029471@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>

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I have a laptop with FreeBSD -current,
with ip address assigned via DHCP.
The laptop has neither a static ip address,
nor a domain.

I can ping the laptop fine, but cannot
ssh into it. The sshd is running, /etc/ssh/ssd_config
seems fine, /etc/hosts.allow is fine.
However, /etc/hosts is just the default:

#
::1                     localhost localhost.my.domain
127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.my.domain
#

Is it the lack of a domain that prevents
me from getting ssh access?
I try to ssh with just a dynamic ip address,
for which ping seems to work fine.
Or is the problem somewhere else?

I'm not even sure I'm asking the right
questions.

Thanks

Anton



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