SSL certs on proxy pool?

[Patrick Radtke]

we have a mail.columbia.edu cert on each of our frontends.

They are behind a load balancer which has the name mail.columbia.edu.

Clients connect to the load balancer which passes them to one of the  
frontends.
The CN name in the  cert matches the name the client thinks they  
connected to and things work fine.

-Patrick
On Aug 1, 2006, at 8:27 PM, Vincent Fox wrote:

>
> Wondering how people deal with SSL certs with multiple frontends?
>
> Do you put wildcard certs on the proxies and leave the SSL  
> processing on
> each unit?
>
> Do you use an SSL-aware load-balancer and let it hold a cert for the
> published hostname and do the heavy lifting?
>
> If there's some 3rd way, I'm interested to hear it.
>
> I'm not really clear what would happen on a load-balancer with TLS
> switchovers, doesn't that imply the load-balancer has to be
> application-aware not just like a hardware version of stunnel?
>
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