Re: valid entries for CN in certificate

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, March 15, 2004 4:57 PM +0000 Greg Matthews <gmatt@nerc.ac.uk> 
wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:27, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > I suggest you read the related RFC's, and then you'll know the answer. :)
>
> ok I guess I asked for that. Fact is, making sure the clients use a FQDN
> when contacting server means tweaking /etc/hosts to make sure they use
> it. However, this breaks our backups as the legato server now thinks
> this is a new host and attempts to do a full backup...
>
> this is known issue (apparently) but legato have no intention of fixing
> it anytime soon. We have a workaround we can use but it is kludgy.
>
> theres always something...

Yeah, we used Legato ages ago.  It always seemed to have some issue for us 
in one place or another, so we dumped it.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
ITSS/TSS/Infrastructure Operations
Stanford University
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