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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon certbot

Document DNS authenticators

Open zjs opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

The website should be updated to include information about the DNS authenticators and their use.

See:

  • https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/4567
  • https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/4577
  • https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/4581
  • https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/4585
  • https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/4587
  • https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/4602
  • https://github.com/certbot/certbot/pull/4603

zjs avatar May 02 '17 17:05 zjs

Under what situations would you suggest this to a user? It seems like often we recommend a simpler plugin, and recommend something like DNS only in special cases. Would it make more sense for this to end up somewhere in the documentation?

SwartzCr avatar May 03 '17 00:05 SwartzCr

I'm not sure what the best place for this information would be, but I believe someone suggested I file this issue during the DNS plugin design meeting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Under what situations would you suggest this to a user?

  • When there are multiple servers involved (e.g., a load balanced set of webservers)
  • When there is a service (vs. a web server) running on port 443, where there may not be an easy way to host a file to complete a http-01 challenge

zjs avatar May 08 '17 21:05 zjs