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I have a FreeBSD server on my home network. It is hooked to the router with an Ethernet cable. Both the server and the router are in the basement. The other computers in the house are upstairs, wireless. So the server's local IP address is set outside the wireless pool, and suppose it's 192.168.10.2. My internet connection comes with a dynamic IP address. I got around that with ddclient and dyndns.com, and suppose the server url is myserver.homeunix.net.

Here's what's wrong with this setup: for no rhyme or reason, sometimes I can log into the server with

ssh gabi@myserver.homeunix.net

and other times I cannot. Instead, I can only do

ssh gabi@192.168.10.2

Does anybody have any idea why this might be?

Thank you,

Gabi

try adding both names and ip addresses for your machines in the following files:

for windows c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
for unix /etc/hosts