On 2004-02-29 Uwe Guenther <uwe@???> wrote:
[...]
[Two A-records pointing to the IP address.]
> The hosts native name is frodo.cscc.de, so I have the setting in exim.conf:
> primary_hostname = mx.cscc.de
> My problem encounters while I want to provide two X509 certs, one
> for mx.cscc.de and a second one for mx.cscc.de to prevent a domain
> name mismatch if some clients look at the X509 CommonName - like
> Mozilla.
> So I need to get out the connected A Record.
[...]
Impossible. The programs look up the IP address and connect to it,
they do not connect to a hostname.
> So in my opinion I can use this only with a second $interface_address for my
> A Record like this:
> smtp.cscc.de. IN A 80.190.249.59
[...]
Afaict using listing the second DNS name as subjectAltName in the
certificate should also work.
cu andreas