You can also use a wildcard cert in other words the hostname would be *.mydomain.com This is a common tactic used by LDAP and web servers and should work quite well for spacewalk. One thing to be aware of is wild card certs don't support subdomains below the glob so *.mydomain.com will work for <a href="http://host1.mydomain.com" type="url">host1.mydomain.com</a> but not <a href="http://host2.domain2.mydomain.com" type="url">host2.domain2.mydomain.com</a> <div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;color: #999999;">-- Sent from my HP Pre3</div> <hr align="left" style="width:75%">On Nov 6, 2013 8:37, Joe Belliveau <joe.belliveau@gmail.com> wrote: I run my spacewalk server with Aliases. However i would rename the host to the alias. Something that won't change often. Also why would you be renaming the host often ? Usually an update server is infrastructure and that should not move often. In the ssl build reply file just add all the aliases, like you would any other certificate request. How I do it is I name my hosts spacewalk-ma-01,02,03 etc. then alias them with a tag like cambridge , boston, worcester (Massachusetts cities indicating their locations) so that the datacenter guys can easily join them to the local repo. BTW mine are all proxy servers to the main. I think you need to consider just aliases in the ssl cert my friend. -Joe On Nov 6, 2013, at 8:02 AM, "FRANK Michael" <michael.frank@faurecia.com> wrote: > Hello Michael, > > With alias I meant a cname record. > > regards > > Mike > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com] Im Auftrag von Michael Mraka > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. November 2013 13:31 > An: spacewalk-list@redhat.com > Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk use Hostname Alias instead of cname > > FRANK Michael wrote: > % Hello community, > % > % I am a novice with spacewalk and currently on the way to setup a % productive system. To have the most flexibility we plan to use a DNS % alias for the spacewalk hostname instead of the cname. This because we % may have to move spacewalk later to a different host with a different % hostname (cname). > > Hello Michael, > > I don't quite understand what's a DNS alias. > Is it secondary A record or CNAME record? > > % I read the doc about spacewalk-hostname-rename but there is no way to % set other host name then the cname. > % > % Does anyone has an idea how this could work? > % > % Any help is much appreciated. > % > % Many thanks for all your work. > % > % Regards > % > % Mike > > > Regards, > > -- > Michael Mráka > Satellite Engineering, Red Hat > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > > DISCLAIMER: > This electronic transmission (and any attachments thereto) is intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you must delete it immediately and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use or disclosure of this message is strictly prohibited. Faurecia does not guarantee the integrity of this transmission and shall therefore never be liable if the message is altered or falsified nor for any virus, interception or damage to your system. > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list