WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED!

WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED… what an annoying error message! This error tends to pop up whenever you point a domain name a new virtual server, or if you happen to rebuild an existing virtual server instance. Every few months or so I end up running into this problem, so I decided to write up a short little blog post on how to fix this for my own personal reference and to help others that may run into this problem. At the moment I’m using a Windows machine, so this blog post is going to be Windows specific:

  1. Type %USERPROFILE% into the address bar of the File Explorer program
  2. Then press the ENTER key
  3. Double click on the .ssh folder
  4. Open the known_hosts file with your text editor
  5. Delete the entry for your server/domain-name and save the file
  6. Close your command prompt program if it is still open, and then relaunch it
  7. Log in to your virtual server via ssh

REFERENCES:
Where is the known_hosts file for OpenSSH for Windows?

 

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