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Re: [Acme] Support for domains with redundant but not immediately synchronized servers

Michael Wyraz <michael@wyraz.de> Tue, 09 February 2016 20:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] Support for domains with redundant but not immediately synchronized servers
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Hi Jonas,
> So if I understand this correctly, the ACME client would have to set
> (or modify) the SRV records in such a way that the host which is
> currently running the client is the one with the highest priority?
> This sounds like you could just use the DNS challenge, right?
>
> And it is a different use-case from the one I posted initially. If the
> clients were able to modify the DNS properly, I could indeed use the
> dns-01 challenge in my scenario. This is not the case though.
You're right, I missunderstood your use case and thought, the client
only runs on a certain of the servers. Using SRV records will not solve
this special use case.

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