

#NEITHER NODENAME NOR SERVNAME PROVIDED OR NOT KNOWN HOW TO#
Kovid, I'm posting here to ask if you can give us any advice on how to diagnose and resolve the problem, because your remarks on the ticket are a bit vague and the error doesn't give us a clue what the real problem is. I looked up the error, found the ticket, and read it. We pressed the button on the server configuration screen to test the server and a browser opened with a web page that looked good, but the iphone just couldn't ever find the server. After a little while, the above mentioned error appeared. I poked around in the preferences, found that the server was showing that it was not started, so I pressed the button to start the server. I checked with my iphone as well, same result. He imported some epub books, and opened Stanza on his iphone. When we installed it, we turned on the server. He wanted to use the built in server to serve out some epub books to his iphone. Two weeks ago sunday I visited a friend, and after I told him how pleased I am with Calibre he installed it on his MacOS X laptop. I ONLY mention this in case myserver1 is another Unix system that maybe has older ssh implimentation.This is in reference to ticket #2733, for the error "(8, 'nodename nor servname provided, or not known')". I had to mess with my ssh_config file Ciphers. AIX used older methods, and El Capitan was using newer methods, and not accepting the AIX methods. Side NOTE: El Capitan gave me problems with AIX because of differences in encryption methods allowed. That can help with diagnosing ssh connections. If you get more information, I would suggest comparing that against a connection that actually works and see where the good and the bad ssh -v -v -v output starts to differ. When I get " ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host", it generally means I was actually talking to the remove sshd. Ssh: Could not resolve hostname fred.local: nodename nor servname provided, or not known When I try to access a host name that is not resolved via DNS, I get Wrong information must be stored somewhere and needs to be deleted,

As only one particular host is affected, I guess the I have tried after browsing a bit for similar problems to flush the DNS cache using:īut it did not help. I have to use the IP address to be able to access this host. Other programs using ssh (Transmit, x2go) have the same problem, If I try to ssh to other nodes in the same domain or anywhereĮlse, I have no problem logging in with the host name. The weird thing is that ssh has this problem only for this one particular Using the IP address for that host, I am able to access it with ssh. On the other side, host, ping and nslookup are able to resolve the Ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Nc: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known Ssh is unable to resolve ONE PARTICULAR host name: I have recently upgraded from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to El Capitan (10.11.6)Īnd the following problem has been present under both OSX versions.
