Many vendors do this and I highly recommend someone like Digicert that won't play the per-machine licensing game with you. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Blake Pfankuch <blake@pfankuch.me> wrote:
Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something a vendor is telling me and hoping some people here have expertise in this area...
I am working with a SSL certificate provider. I am trying to purchase a quantity of wildcard SSL certificates to cover about 60 FQDN's across 4 domains. Vendor is telling me that the Wildcard certificates are licensed per physical device it is installed on. This means instead of using a single wildcard across 20 servers, I would have to buy 20 wildcard certs for 20 servers.
This does not compute in my brain and also in my mind completely defeats the purpose of a wildcard cert as I know it. Has anyone run into this before?
Thanks Blake