Known hosts and dynamic IP addresses

[Markus Friedl]

checkhostip no

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it becomes more and more common to have machines with 
> dynamically assigned  IP addresses online (e.g. DSL), which 
> can be found through dynamic DNS entries.
> 
> Unfortunately, the "Known Hosts" mechanism doesn't work for 
> these machines: Since the entry is made for the IP address,
> there's a new entry every time the address changes.
> 
> 
> Therefore, an option should be invented which allows to 
> store the host key under the DNS name only.
> 
> 
> regards
> Hadmut
> 
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