[159176] in North American Network Operators' Group
SSL Certificates and ... Providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blake Pfankuch)
Thu Dec 27 14:48:09 2012
From: Blake Pfankuch <blake@pfankuch.me>
To: "NANOG (nanog@nanog.org)" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:47:59 +0000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate somethi=
ng a vendor is telling me and hoping some people here have expertise in thi=
s area...
I am working with a SSL certificate provider. I am trying to purchase a qu=
antity of wildcard SSL certificates to cover about 60 FQDN's across 4 domai=
ns. Vendor is telling me that the Wildcard certificates are licensed per p=
hysical device it is installed on. This means instead of using a single wi=
ldcard across 20 servers, I would have to buy 20 wildcard certs for 20 serv=
ers.
This does not compute in my brain and also in my mind completely defeats th=
e purpose of a wildcard cert as I know it. Has anyone run into this before=
?
Thanks
Blake
