[162603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 and HTTPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yang Yu)
Fri Apr 26 09:43:11 2013
In-Reply-To: <26869859.4060.1366943536751.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:42:49 -0400
From: Yang Yu <yang.yu.list@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If the hosting provider can still charge for IPv4 addresses, why would
they support SNI or IPv6 SSL ;)
I have seen a CDN using certificates with tons of domain names in
subject alternative name. Old Symbian phones don't support SAN......
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Hubbard" <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
>
>> The web server has to support it too, which means compiling
>> apache with SNI support and there are of course plenty of
>> hosts running old apache.
>
> Well, sure, but for the hoster, it's a direct benefit, not an externality;
> they have motive to fix it.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --
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