On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Michael Wyraz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> as discussed before, acme/http-01 is difficult to implement if the
> domain being validated does not resolve to the IP address of the machine
> where the client runs on.
>
> Common cases are:
> - multiple physical servers behind a tcp balancer (A-Record resolves to
> the load balancer, not to the server where the acme client runs on).
> - geo based dns resolution (A-Record resolves to the "nearest" server
> which is not necessarily to the server where the acme client runs on)
> - A-Record resolves to a device that is not able to run the acme client
> (hardware firewall, router, load balancer)
>
> I've created a proposal for using SRV (with fallback to A/AAAA) to solve
> these issues: https://github.com/ietf-wg-acme/acme/pull/83


This doesn't seem like a great idea. ACME should largely behave the same way
that Web clients do. If you want to muck with DNS just use the DNS
challenges.

-Ekr




> As you can see, the change only affects a small part of the server side
> of the protocol and should have minimal impact to implementations.
>
> Let me know what you think about it.
>
> Kind regards,
> Michael.
>
>
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