Subject: Re: More than one hostname assigned to a machine (slightly OT)
To: Daniel Eggert <eggert@macvaerk.dtu.dk>
From: Colin J. Raven <colin@kozy-kabin.nl>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/07/2004 21:58:53
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Daniel Eggert wrote:

>
> On 7. nov 2004, at 22:21, Colin J. Raven wrote:
>
> >
> >> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:28:20 +0000 (UTC)
> >> "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kozy-kabin.nl> wrote:
> >>> Greetings all!
> >>>
> >>> Crazy though this sounds, I need my little qube to answer to more
> >>> than
> >>
> >> Not crazy at all.  I can't think of one machine that I run that
> >> answers
> >> to only one host name.
> >
> > That's a relief! :)
> >
>
> Slightly OT:
>
> One thing to bear in mind related to https (SSL): Since the ssl session
> is started once you connect and before apache's name based virtual host
> kicks in, you can not have different certificates for different host
> names, unless they have different IP addresses.
>
> Since certificates contain the host name they are valid for this might
> be a problem, as user will get an alert about the certificate not
> matching the host name.
>
I hadn't thought of that...your timing is excellent since I did intend
SSL on both at some point. Thanks...I just added your point to my list
of "how_do_I?" for later consideration if/when I reach implementation of
SSL.

Regards,
-Colin
--
Colin J. Raven
NetBSD-1.6.1 on a Cobalt Qube2 - http://www.NetBSD.org -
Sun Nov  7 21:58:00 UTC 2004
 9:58PM  up  6:56, 3 users, load averages: 1.12, 1.19, 1.21