SSHFP 🔑 is pretty cool
January 18, 2019
Recently, a colleague told me about the existance of SSHFP DNS records. A way to verify that you’re actually connecting to the host you’re expecting to connect to.
Here’s how you can set it up for yourself:
1: Run this command
➜ ~ ssh-keygen -r $hostname
2: ??? \ 3: Profit!
In all seriousness: you’re now going to see the records you need to add that are specific to the server you ran the command on. It looks something like this: