From non-fips systems cannot ssh to RHEL 8 in FIPS mode

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to ssh from non-fips to fips systems

    $ ssh node1.example.com
FIPS mode initialized
Unable to negotiate with UNKNOWN port 65535: no matching host key 
type found. Their offer: rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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