> Did I? I don't recall recommending purchasing a certificate
Purchase a domain name not certificate.


On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, 16:45 Christopher Schultz, <ch...@christopherschultz.net>
wrote:

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> Zahid,
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> On 1/6/20 10:08, Zahid Rahman wrote:
> > 》> If, however, I do curl https://foo.bar.net from my Mac, I get a
> >> response, but if I do curl https://localhost, it doesn't get
> >> anywhere.
> >
> > This may be relevant. In the video mentioned earlier in the thread
> > the let's encrypt  expert says  let's encrypt doesn't  work on
> > localhost  but it only works on actual domain.
>
> Correct. You cannot obtain a certificate from Let's Encrypt for
> "localhost"; it's got to be something Let's Encrypt can resolve and
> contact from their infrastructure. For that reason, LE doesn't work
> very well for internal networks.
>
> > He goes on to say you should purchase one "it is not very expensive
> > ".
>
> Did I? I don't recall recommending purchasing a certificate during a
> presentation on zero-cost certificates.
>
> I'd never bother paying for a certificate for an internal network.
> Just self-sign and establish your own trust. The purpose of LE is for
> environments where you need *public* trust, not private trust. Private
> trust is easy to establish: you get to decide all by yourself! :)
>
> - -chris
>
> > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, 14:57 Christopher Schultz,
> > <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> >
> > James,
> >
> > On 1/3/20 13:47, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> >>>> On 1/3/20 9:57 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> >>>>> Is perhaps the AWS firewall (which is a Load Balancer,
> >>>>> right?) redirecting the port?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Easy test (from the server):
> >>>>>
> >>>>> $ telnet localhost 443
> >>>>
> >>>> I hadn't thought of that. But alas, that instance doesn't
> >>>> have Telnet on it.
> >>>>
> >>>>> If it connects, you have something on the host making this
> >>>>> work. If it fails to connect, the 443 -> 8443 magic is
> >>>>> outside the host itself.
> >>>>
> >>>> If, however, I do curl https://foo.bar.net from my Mac, I get
> >>>> a response, but if I do curl https://localhost, it doesn't
> >>>> get anywhere.
> >
> > So your instance is indeed listening on 8443 and the host (at least
> > on the loopback interface) isn't doing any port 443
> > funny-business.
> >
> >>>>> Note that if you are using AWS load-balancer, AWS provides
> >>>>> free certificates that auto-renew; just configure them and
> >>>>> you are done forever.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Let me know about the Load-Balancer. That's probably the
> >>>>> piece of the puzzle you aren't looking at quite yet.
> >>>>
> >>>> No; we *have* load-balanced clusters, and they *are* (as of
> >>>> last month) on AWS's certificate system, so I know what that
> >>>> looks like. This is completely different; when I connect, I
> >>>> see the certificate that is currently active on the Tomcat
> >>>> server (and if I plug a different cert into Tomcat, I see the
> >>>> change from my browser).
> >
> > There are also load-balancers that just move bytes and don't
> > terminate TLS. It's also possible to have the same certificate
> > installed in multiple places. I think you are going to have to look
> > around your network a little more to figure out what's happening.
> >
> > Maybe simply try:
> >
> > $ host foo.bar.net
> >
> > And check the IP versus the IP of the Tomcat node?
> >
> > -chris
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