# Host is unreachable by SSH while running Ansible playbook

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/host-is-unreachable-by-ssh-while-running-ansible-playbook/33720>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/host-is-unreachable-by-ssh-while-running-ansible-playbook/33720 "2020-09-01T21:46:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/host-is-unreachable-by-ssh-while-running-ansible-playbook/33720/1 "2020-09-01T21:46:44Z")

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Host is unreachable by SSH while running Ansible playbook. Ran Ansible playbook on 15 hosts, 13 were provisioned successfully, 1 was unreachable even though they were configured the same. Here is the actual error received. Can anyone help? Thx

fatal: [Host]: UNREACHABLE! =\> {“changed”: false, “msg”: “Failed to connect to the host via ssh: FIPS mode initialized\r\nDisabling GSSAPIKeyExchange. Not usable in FIPS mode\r\n  
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\nPermission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password,keyboard-interactive).”, “unreachable”: true}