This isn't a problem as such but I don't understand why it's happening and I'd like to understand.
I have a VPS called isbd.biz and I access it using ssh. My user account on both my local machine (desktop and laptop) is 'chris' and my user account on isbd.biz is also 'chris'. I have account 'chris' on isbd.biz set up to allow login only using public key authentication. The ip address of isbd.biz is 213.171.194.64. If I log in with 'ssh 213.171.194.64' I, correctly, get prompted for my local system's public key passphrase and I can log in successfully. However if I try 'ssh isbd.biz' I get prompted for "[email protected]'s password" which doesn't exist and I can't log in. 'host isbd.biz' returns the correct IP address for isbd.biz so why does ssh not work using the name rather than the IP address? -- Chris Green ยท
