let me guess, your problem has something to do with your certificate not
supporting wildcards for the sub-domains.



On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Sir June <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Our off-shore security consultant sent me an email about a security issue
> on our webserver.
>
> "The subject's common name (CN) field in the x.509 certificate should be
> fixed to reflect the name of the entity presenting the certificate (e.g. the
> hostname). This is done by generating a new certificate.  ISSUE: X.509
> certificate does not match the entity name. "
>
> i ran:  # openssl x509 -noout -text -in server.crt
>
> ....
> Subject: serialnurmber=<series of numbers here>
> O=MIS Division, C=PH, ST,=Manila,OU=MIS 
> Unit,CN=www.ourdomain.com<http://www.ourwebsite.com>
> ....
>
> my server's hostname are:  linux1.ourdomain.com, linux2.ourdomain.com,
> linux3.ourdomain.com  and they are in a load-balancer's rotation for
> http://www.ourdomain.com
>
> i don't know much about x.509 and i want to understand a little more.
> Verisign is the CA on my certificate.
>
> Does the CN value needs to match the server's hostname?  How do i fix
> this?
>
>
> thanks,
> sirjune
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