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Re: Antw: RE: N-Way multimaster Replication with TLS and multiple server certificates



Ulrich Windl wrote:
>>>> Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> schrieb am 10.12.2014 um 09:44 in
> Nachricht <548807E4.5000108@stroeder.com>:
>> Ulrich Windl wrote:
>>>> I use a cert with the VIP used by clients, and the hostnames used between
>>>> the servers all setup in the subjectaltname of the certificate.
>>>
>>> But this "solution" does not scale well when adding or removing servers...
>>
>> Why does it not scale?
>>
>> If you have an individual cert for each server with the VIP DNS name in
>> subjectAltName you can just add servers as needed.
> 
> The point is: If you change one server, you'll have to update certificates for
> all active servers;

Nonsense. This will only be the case if you change the VIP's DNS name.

Or could you please tell us what's so hard to understand with "individual cert
for each server"?

> not to talk about that fact that all certificates will
> expire exactly at the same time.

Uuuh... yes, there's work out there to be done.
So what's the real problem?

Ciao, Michael.

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