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Private Network - SSH not working with private ip address

Posted on May 27, 2014

I have two droplets and have ssh working fine when using the public ip address.

When I use the private ip address ssh does not work.

Do I need to generate different keys? any suggestions?



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My fault - I had the wrong ip in ifcfg-eth1 config file! :-(

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