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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:57:49 -0600
From:      Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>
To:        Brad Mettee <bmettee@pchotshots.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ certificate error
Message-ID:  <op.ws91enh934t2sn@tech304.office.supranet.net>
In-Reply-To: <5130DA10.7010904@pchotshots.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> <op.ws9y9fzx34t2sn@tech304.office.supranet.net> <5130DA10.7010904@pchotshots.com>

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On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:40:48 -0600, Brad Mettee <bmettee@pchotshots.com>  
wrote:

> On 3/1/2013 11:11 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
>> 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.
>
> And in this particular case, the certificate is for www.freebsd.org and  
> freebsd.org, and the browser is complaining because it's being used on  
> wiki.freebsd.org.
>
> Their certificate should have been issued for *.freebsd.org instead of  
> just the main site name. Unfortunately I think all of the certificate  
> issuers charge big $$$ for that type of cert......
>



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