On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:17 , Kirill Miazine <km-lists@???> said:
> Alan Thew wrote:
> > We run a group of SMTP machines with round robin `load balancing' which
> > people point their clients at.
> >
> > One of the things I would like when launching SMTP AUTH+SSL is that people
> > have very little or nothing to change, their client and remote server do
> > it all.. _but_ since SSL certs are normally tied to a specific machine,
>
> They are tied to a specific hostname, not the specific machine.
OK.
>
> > how do I have a simple single name in the DNS for them to point their
> > client to?
>
> What does your round robin load balacing do?
Just DNS round robin,
>
> Say you have mail.example.com where clients connect to - then you need a
> cert issued for mail.example.com put on each of the servers involved in
> your load balanced setup.
Thanks, I'll look at this
>
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