Dear list, I have again come to you to discuss one more thing about ssh server in debian. The ssh server is running as I have reported earlie rwith "Listenaddress" option. But when I check the .ssh/known_host file I have become very surprised. In suse the file listed the hosts with IP address; but here in debian the file listed the hosts in some encrypted form I think. For an example one of the host appear as ~~~~~~~~~~~~` 1|IJgX5SzPVBU+0HMca+9NUwJ7dbs=|L7VrUguJZVpsie0l8gFmWb0D7dw= ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEA4oeNBdcZX/5/ir3GJo/466qO5gfacLX632YiucgBX2Z4XcT9FhofPGVF1BTXTp7iS9pwnEeabmilSBsNeUN8BniEbDVi4LpSjggSJP08dBZSm3kqmKT6GVlfRshUc+DaXfCJyp3VhNdV0Z3WiMDeUdfMt71r0drNFZ+s+rFZviM= ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Could any one suggest how can I change this to have IP based known_host file ? Thanks