ssh remote host identification has changed

Question

I\'ve reinstalled my server and I am getting these messages:

[user@hostname ~]$ ssh root@pong
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Answer 1

I had this same error occur after I recreated a Digital Ocean Ubuntu image. I used the following command with my server IP in place of [IP_ADDRESS]

ssh-keygen -R [IP_ADDRESS]