[159178] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SSL Certificates and ... Providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Adams)
Thu Dec 27 14:56:11 2012
In-Reply-To: <CC75EEBF17C7374EA8309102B7B10C840109D3E657@SHSBS.shenrons-house.local>
From: John Adams <jna@retina.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:53:58 -0800
To: Blake Pfankuch <blake@pfankuch.me>
Cc: "NANOG \(nanog@nanog.org\)" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Many vendors do this and I highly recommend someone like Digicert that won't=
play the per-machine licensing game with you.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Blake Pfankuch <blake@pfankuch.me> wrote:
> Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate someth=
ing a vendor is telling me and hoping some people here have expertise in thi=
s area...
>=20
> I am working with a SSL certificate provider. I am trying to purchase a q=
uantity 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 ph=
ysical device it is installed on. This means instead of using a single wild=
card across 20 servers, I would have to buy 20 wildcard certs for 20 servers=
.
>=20
> This does not compute in my brain and also in my mind completely defeats t=
he purpose of a wildcard cert as I know it. Has anyone run into this before=
?
>=20
> Thanks
> Blake
