Jorge Davila wrote:

Which is the reason for this sentence in the openca documentation?
Certificates for VPN+ Gateways and Machine certificates should include
the DNS name and IP address in the subject alternative name.

F-Secure VPN+ includes like all IPSec products a small IP firewall. If you use the VPN+ clients as road warriors for example then you normally only allow IPSec connects to your VPN gateway and the road warrior use your internal servers for all services.

The problem is that services are only available if the connection is already been established. If you start the VPN session then you have perhaps no DNS and this is the reason for the sentence. If you start the connection to your gateway then you must be able to verify the identity without DNS. If you forget to add the IP to the subject alternative name then you must allow external DNS via a bypass definition (and try to switch later to internal DNS) or you have simply a problem (e.g. static local DNS entries) ;)

Best regards

Michael
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