ssh Could not resolve hostname hostname nodename nor servname provided or not known

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I am trying to set up a VPN with a Raspberry Pi  and the first step is gaining the ability to ssh into the device from outside my local network  For whatever reason  this is proving to be impossible and I haven t the slightest clue why  When I try to ssh into my server with user hostname  I get the error   ssh  Could not resolve hostname  hostname   nodename nor servname provided  or not known    However  I can log into the server with   ssh user  local IP    The server is a Raspberry Pi Model B running the latest distribution of Raspbian and the machine I am trying to connect to it with is a Macbook Pro running Mavericks  ssh was enabled on the Raspberry Pi when I set up Raspbian   I have perused Stack Overflow for hours trying to see if anyone else had this problem and I have not found anything  Every ssh tutorial I find says that I should just be able to set it up on the remote machine and log in from anywhere using a hostname  and I have never had success with that

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If your command is     ssh -p 1122  path to pemfile user  hostip hostname    You will also face the same error   ssh  Could not resolve hostname  hostname   nodename nor servname provided  or not known   when you miss the option -i  path to pemfile of ssh  So Command should be      ssh -p 1122 -i path to pemfile user  hostip hostname

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For me  the problem was a typo on my    ssh config file   I had   Host host1    HostName 10 10 1 1   User jlyonsmith   The problem was the   after the host1 - it should not be there  ssh gives no warnings for typos in the    ssh config file   When it can t find host1 it looks for the machine locally  can t find it and prints the cryptic error message

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I needed to connect to remote Amazon server  ssh -i    ssh test pem -fN -L 5555 localhost 5678 ubuntu hostname com  I was getting the following error   ssh  Could not resolve hostname  lt hostname com gt   nodename nor servname provided  or not known  Solution For Mac OSX  Pinging the host resolved the issue  I am using Mac OSX Seirra   ping hostname com  Now problem resolved  Able to connect to the server   Note  I tried this solution also  But it didn t work out  Then ping resolved the issue

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This was happening to me when trying to access Github  The problem is that I was in the habit of doing   git remote add  lt xyz gt  ssh   git github com        But  if you are having this error from the question  removing ssh    may resolve the issue  It solved it for me   Note that you will have to do a git remote remove  lt xyz gt  and re-add the remote url without ssh

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I had the same problem after testing Visual Studio Code with remote-ssh plugin  During the setup of the remote host the software did ask me where to store the config-file  I thought a good place is the   ssh-folder   Linux-system  as it was a ssh-remote configuration  It turned out to be a bad idea  The next day  after a new start of the computer I couldn t logon via ssh on the remote server  The error message was  Could not resolve hostname         Name or service not known   What happen was that the uninstall from VSC did not delete this config-file and of course it was than disturbing the usual process  An  rm  later the problem was solved  I did delete this config-file

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It seems that some apps won t read symlinked  etc hosts  on macOS at least   you need to hardlink it   ln  path to hosts file  etc hosts

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Recently I came across the same issue  I was able to ssh to my pi on my network  but not from outside my home network   I had already    installed and tested ssh on my home network  Set a static IP for my pi   Set up a Dynamic DNS service and installed the software on my pi  I referenced these instructions for setting up the static ip  and there are many more instructional resources out there    Also  I set up port forward on my router for hosting a web site and I had even port forward port 22 to my pi s static IP for ssh  but I left the field blank where you specify the application you are performing the port forwarding for on the router  Anyway  I added  ssh  into this field and  VOILA  A working ssh connection from anywhere to my pi   I ll write out my router s port forwarding settings         ApplicationTextField  ssh  nbsp  nbsp  nbsp   external port  22  nbsp  nbsp  nbsp   Internal Port  22  nbsp  nbsp  nbsp   Protocal  Both  nbsp  nbsp  nbsp   To IP Address  192 168 1      nbsp  nbsp  nbsp   Enabled  checkBox   Port forwarding settings can be different for different routers though  so look up directions for your router   Now  when I am outside of my home network I connect to my pi by typing        ssh pi  hostname    Then I am able to input my password and connect

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If you re on Mac  restarting the DNS responder fixed the issue for me   sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

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I got this error by using a  yml inventory file in ansible that was not properly formatted   For multiple hosts in a group  each hostname needs to end in a hard colon       Otherwise ansible runs the host names together and produces this ssh error

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In my case I was trying ssh like this   ssh pedro 192 168 2 179 22    when the correct format is    ssh pedro 192 168 2 179 -p 22

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I had the same issue  which I was able to resolve by adding a  local to the host name  ala ssh user hostname local

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Try this  considering your allowed ports  Store your  pem file in your Documents folder for instance   To gain access to it now all you have to do is cd  directory   which moves you to the directory of the allotted file  You can first type ls  to list the directory contents you are currently in   ls cd  Documents chmod 400 mycertificate pem ssh -i  mycertificate pem  ec2-user ec2-1-2-3-4 us-compass-0 compute amazonaws com -p 80

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I had the same problem  The address shown in Preferences -  Sharing -  Remote Login didn t work and I got a      nodename nor servname provided  or not known   However  when I manually edited the settings  in Preferences -  Sharing -  Remote Login -  edit  and enabled  Use dynamic global hostname   it suddenly worked

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I had the same issue connecting to a remote machine  but I managed to login as below   ssh -p 22 myName hostname   or   ssh -l myName -p 22 hostname

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I have the exact same configuration  This answer pertains specifically to connecting to a raspberry pi from inside the local network  not outside   I have A raspberry pi ssh server  and a macbook pro  both connected to a a router  On a test router  my mac connects perfectly when I use ssh danran mypiserver  however  when I use ssh danran mypiserver on my main router  i get the error  ssh  Could not resolve hostname  hostname   nodename nor servname provided  or not known  Just as you have gotten  It seems  the solution for me at least  was to add a  local extension to the hostname when connecting from my mac via ssh  So  to solve this  i used the command ssh danran mypiserver local  remember to replace the  quot danran quot  with your username and the  quot mypiserver quot  with your hostname  instead of using ssh danran mypiserver  To anyone reading this  try adding a  local as the suffix to your hostname you are trying to connect to  That should solve the issue on a local network

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If you need access to your VPN from anywhere in the world you need to register a domain name and have it point to the public ip address of your VPN network gateway  You could also use a Dynamic DNS service to connect a hostname to your public ip   If you only need to ssh from your Mac to your Raspberry inside your local network  do this  On your Mac  edit  etc hosts  Assuming the Raspberry has hostname  berry  and ip  172 16 0 100   add one line     ip           hostname 172 16 0 100   berry   Now  ssh user berry should work

[linux] ssh: Could not resolve hostname [hostname]: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

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