Hi,

I am having mail server problems that (apparently) require me to change the
name of the machine to a fully qualified domain name.

I have a number of sites using SSL certificates - will these be affected if
I change the name of the computer hosting them?

Thanks in advance,

Stu

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Not necessarily.

What needs to match is:
a) the name embedded in the certificate
-and-
b) the name that the client is using to access the site (either the SMTP
site, or the WWW site - you didn't say what they are accessing).

So, if your SMTP server starts using a FQDN, there's no reason (per se) that
clients can't still connect to your website using the old name(s) that the
website(s) have. So the SSL certificates should continue to work fine.

Cheers
Ken

"Stu" <s.lock@cergis.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am having mail server problems that (apparently) require me to change
> the name of the machine to a fully qualified domain name.
>
> I have a number of sites using SSL certificates - will these be affected
> if I change the name of the computer hosting them?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Stu
>
>

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