Hello
I have tried to network two computers to each other (not internet, just intranet), but have come across some problems.

I have physically connected two linux systems (one Red Hat and one Fedora) using a switch. I then created rsa keys on user1@hostname under /.ssh directory. I then copied the id_rsa.pub from user1@hostname to a vi text and moved it to the other computer, user2@hostname and pasted it to into the file named “authorized_keys’ under its .ssh directory. I then rebooted both computers.

Now, when I go to user1@hostname and ssh user2@hostname (not sure here about how much to write for address. That is, my hostname on user2 is hostname.localdomain..so, should I ssh user2@hostname.localdomain??). Anyway, either way using user2@hostname or user2@hostname.localdomain, I get

ssh: hostname.localdomain: temporary failure in name resolution.

I would greatly appreciate any assistance on this issue. I am really NEW to networking (working out of the book ‘Networking for Dummies’)…

Steve

This is not really an SSH problem. Supposing you did you would have got something similar. Maybe you meant to enter these hosts in the /etc/hosts file where the other one will become aware of it.

There are several way to configure some sort of name resolution.

To elaboate see my post
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...sh-4175501696/

You can use just use the IP address, add an entry to your /etc/hosts file, add a host shortcut to a .ssh/config file or use a local DNS server.

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use one of your machines as a dns server it should be able to connect or as michael said add an entry to you /etc/hosts file should work.