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sidambhire

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Registered: 2013-10-15

Posts: 8

[Solved] Weird ssh error, case sensitive HostNames are not working

Hi all,
   I just reinstalled OS on my computer. After reinstalling the Hostnames defined in .ssh/config were not working properly. When I do ssh to a hostname eg. Fermi defined in my config file, it shows error:

ssh: Could not resolve hostname fermi: Name or service not known

Note that Fermi appears here as lowercase word. So I tried chaging it to fermi. It was working fine. ssh -v was of no use for troubleshooting.
   A possible workaround may be to rename all hostnames defined in config to use lowercase, but it is just annoying. Did I mess up some parameter in configuration? It would be great if anyone can help me out.

Last edited by sidambhire (2014-02-08 05:22:43)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: [Solved] Weird ssh error, case sensitive HostNames are not working

It's a known issue. Fix is in the updated package.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/38791

sidambhire

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Registered: 2013-10-15

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] Weird ssh error, case sensitive HostNames are not working

Thanks x33a.

x33a

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Re: [Solved] Weird ssh error, case sensitive HostNames are not working

Please edit the title of your first post, and add [solved] to it.