what does this mean ?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007, vu pham wrote:
>I was on my home PC "gh" making connection to the server "o" in the
>office and got the error and the next immediate trying has it worked.
>
>Never has I got this before.

It probably means that you have never connected to that machine
before as there's nothing in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file for it.

>
>[vu at gh ~]$ ssh o
>ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
>[vu at gh ~]$ ssh o
>The authenticity of host 'o (192.168.249.214)' can't be established.
>RSA key fingerprint is 99:a7:af:cc:8a:1b:86:ec:77:20:a6:91:f0:6f:30:73.
>Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? 
>
>Vu
>
>
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