[ale] SSL Certs for $14.95

[James P. Kinney III]

You certainly can. The only reason for doing any of this is if the IP
address is what you want in the ssl cert because for some reason you
don't want the host name.

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:24 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:20 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > 
> > Let's say you have the domain "outpostsentinal.com". Create a host
> > named
> > sslserver.outpostsentinel.com and set the DNS record to point to
> > 209.168.246.232. That will create a "chain of authentication" from the
> > IP address back to the business name in the whois record for
> > outpostsentinel.com. That business name is used in the cert request as
> > the (O) field and the (DN) field is the IP address.
> 
> If I did this why not also set the DN field to
> sslserver.outpostsentinel.com Or whatever.
> 
> > 
> 
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