On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:47 PM, 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
Blake Many vendors assign to a single IP address. When you send your CSR it is for one server only. Look at some of the public/free CAs to find some unbiased info. You could hide everything behind a proxy/loadbalancer if you want. -- ~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lath...@gmail.com http://lathama.net ~
