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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:11:29 -0600
From:      Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>
To:        Javad Kouhi <javad.kouhi@gmail.com>, fbsd8@a1poweruser.com
Cc:        "Zyumbilev, Peter" <peter@aboutsupport.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ certificate error
Message-ID:  <op.ws9y9fzx34t2sn@tech304.office.supranet.net>
In-Reply-To: <5130CC82.4000607@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <5130B651.9030607@a1poweruser.com> <1362147256.788.3.camel@archlinux> <5130BC16.8020903@aboutsupport.com> <CA%2Bg814cd-vZPEXm8T8ExucnHCCxnxj0jxjeaXd9BGfrOdRrzpQ@mail.gmail.com> <5130CC82.4000607@a1poweruser.com>

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On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:42:58 -0600, <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> The fact remains, the ms/browsers do find the wiki.freebsd.org  
> wedsite's  certificate invalid because the certificate ip address does  
> not match the ip address the public dns points to.

You can put a certificate on any IP address you want. It's not embedded  
into the certificate. For the most part it only matters that the  
CommonName on the certificate matches the hostname of the website and the  
certificate chain is valid.



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