Hello, ever since I issued my first wildcard (March 13, the day they went live) I was suprised how DNS-01 handles verification. Challenging for the root domain and wildcard (*.example.com) need the same TXT hostname (_acme-challenge.domain.tld) which doesn’t seem right, specially considering how cr…

Why does DNS-01 treat root domains and wildcards the same?

tob August 18, 2018, 11:15am 2

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