[Gllug] Persuading ssh to be less fussy for one nominated target host

[Ziya Suzen]

On 7/8/07, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> There is another situation where ssh's host key checking gives false
> alarms: when you've got machines which get randomly assigned IP
> addresses (eg. from a dump DHCP server).  I wish I knew a way to make
> ssh handle this more intelligently.  On my home network I have dozens
> of machines which are constantly booted and rebooted, and consequently
> get semi-random IP addresses from my stupid DSL router -- these

I haven't tried this myself, but looking at man ssh_config CheckHostIP
option should work. Of course given that your  dump DHCP server is
updating DNS :)

--Ziya
Who is feeling bad giving security weakening suggestions :(
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