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 <bl...@pfankuch.me> wrote: > Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something > a vendor is telling me and hoping some people here have expertise in this > area... > > I am working with a SSL certificate provider. I am trying to purchase a > quantity of wildcard SSL certificates to cover about 60 FQDN's across 4 > domains. Vendor is telling me that the Wildcard certificates are licensed > per physical device it is installed on. This means instead of using a single > wildcard across 20 servers, I would have to buy 20 wildcard certs for 20 > servers. > > This does not compute in my brain and also in my mind completely defeats the > purpose of a wildcard cert as I know it. Has anyone run into this before? > > Thanks > Blake
