Roland0 wrote: 
> ownership isn't required, you can also use e.g. a duckdns subdomain
> the subdomain / host name doesn't have to exist, and you can get
> wildcard certificates (so one can use e.g. *.internal.domain.com with a
> single SSL cert)
> 
Letsencrypt only offers wildcard certificates using DNS-01 challenge,
meaning that you must be able to control the DNS server to add/remove a
TXT entry.

> 
> The challenge takes a couple of seconds, so the webserver only has to be
> online for that. could be done with e.g. some dyndns, or just point the
> domain at the public ip for that time if you have one (or use a VPS,
> which one can get for ~2 EUR/month)
> 
Yes, but that requires more programming skills and the point here is
that people appear to expect that this could work out-of-the-box. It
doesn't. Also don't forget that Letsencrypt certificates are only valid
for 90 days and thus you must repeat these actions regularly.

> 
> A internal DNS proxy / server can map queries for the domain used in the
> certificate to the correct LAN IPs (*.internal.domain.com -> 192...). No
> public IP, and nothing is exposed to the outside.
> 
You can also simply edit the hosts file
(%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows), either way I'm sure
that by now we have lost the topic starter completely.

> I thought about that (using 'mkcert'
> (https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert)), but decided against it for a
> number of reasons (mainly the one you mentioned, but also since it
> generally seemed to be huge hassle )
(...) :confused:


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