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remram ◴[16 Jan 25 22:10 UTC] No.42731543[source]▶

What are reasons to use a certificate for an IP? Why wouldn't you use a name?

Someone already mentioned that it's needed for Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR) for DNS-over-HTTPS. Anything else?

If you need https, but whatever device you want to serve to doesn't let you use hostnames.

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1. remram ◴[20 Jan 25 03:06 UTC] No.42764585[source]▶

Like what?

Six day and IP address certificate options in 2025