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wildcard SSL certificate, but "www.sf.ca.us.10.9.9.142.sslip.io"
will not. This is a technical limitation of wildcard
certs and the manner in which browsers treat them (read
more <a href="http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10538/what-certificates-are-needed-for-multi-level-subdomains">here</a>).
This restricts sslip.io's usage model. For example, it
more <a href="http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10538/what-certificates-are-needed-for-multi-level-subdomains">here</a>).</p>
<p>This restricts sslip.io's usage model. For example, it
won't work properly with Cloud Foundry's app domain or
system domain.
<p class="lead">Can you make the hostnames easier to remember? I'm being
force to memorize IP addresses.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, no. We appreciate that "52-0-56-137.sslip.io"
is not an easy-to-remember hostname, whereas something
along the lines of "aws-server.sslip.io" would be much
simpler, but we don't see an easy solution&mdash;we
need to be able to extract the IP address from the
hostname in order for our DNS nameserver to reply with
the proper address when queried.</p>
<p class="lead">Do you have support for IPv6-style addresses?</p>
<p>Not yet, but if there's enough demand for it we might
try implementing it.</p>
<p class="lead">Why did you choose a 4096-bit key instead of a 2048-bit
key?</p>
<p>We couldn't help ourselves&mdash;when it comes to keys,
longer is better. In retrospect there were flaws in
our thinking: certain hardware devices, e.g. YubiKeys,
only support keys of length 2048 bits or less. Also,
there was no technical value in making a long key&mdash;it's
publicly available on GitHub, so a zero-bit key would
have been equally secure.</p>
<p class="lead">Do I have to use the sslip.io domain? I'd rather have
a valid cert for my domain.</p>
<p>If you want valid SSL certificate, and you don't want
to use the sslip.io domain, then you'll need to purchase
a certificate for your domain. We purchased ours from
<a href="https://www.cheapsslshop.com">Cheap SSL Shop</a>,
but use a vendor with whom you're comfortable. </p>
<p class="lead">What is the sslip.io certificate chain? </p>
<p>The sslip.io certificate chain is the series of certificates,
each signing the next, with a root certificate at the
top. It looks like the following:</p>
<div class="col-sm-12">
<img src="img/cert_chain.png" height="206" /> </div>
<div class="row"></div>
system domain.</p>
<p class="lead">Does sslip.io work with name-based virtual hosting? We
have multiple projects but only one webserver.</p>
<p> sslip.io interoperates quite well with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting#Name-based">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting#Name-based</a>.
You can prepend identifying information to the sslip.io
hostname without jeopardizing the address resolution, and then use
those hostnames to distinguish the content being served.
For example, let's assume that your webserver's IP address
is 10.9.9.30, and that you have three projects you're
working on (Apple, Google, and Facebook). You would use
the following three sslip.io hostnames: </p>
<ul>
<li>apple-10-9-9-30.xip.io</li>
<li>facebook-10-9-9-30.xip.io</li>
<li>google-10-9-9-30.xip.io</li>
</ul>
<p class="lead">Can you make the hostnames easier to remember? I'm being
force to memorize IP addresses.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, no. We appreciate that "52-0-56-137.sslip.io"
is not an easy-to-remember hostname, whereas something
along the lines of "aws-server.sslip.io" would be much
simpler, but we don't see an easy solution&mdash;we need
to be able to extract the IP address from the hostname
in order for our DNS nameserver to reply with the proper
address when queried.</p>
<p class="lead">Do you have support for IPv6-style addresses?</p>
<p>Not yet, but if there's enough demand for it we might try
implementing it.</p>
<p class="lead">Why did you choose a 4096-bit key instead of a 2048-bit
key?
</p>
<p>We couldn't help ourselves&mdash;when it comes to keys,
longer is better. In retrospect there were flaws in our
thinking: certain hardware devices, e.g. YubiKeys, only
support keys of length 2048 bits or less. Also, there
was no technical value in making a long key&mdash;it's
publicly available on GitHub, so a zero-bit key would
have been equally secure.</p>
<p class="lead">Do I have to use the sslip.io domain? I'd rather have a
valid cert for my domain.</p>
<p>If you want valid SSL certificate, and you don't want to
use the sslip.io domain, then you'll need to purchase
a certificate for your domain. We purchased ours from
<a href="https://www.cheapsslshop.com">Cheap SSL Shop</a>,
but use a vendor with whom you're comfortable. </p>
<p class="lead">What is the sslip.io certificate chain? </p>
<p>The sslip.io certificate chain is the series of certificates,
each signing the next, with a root certificate at the
top. It looks like the following:</p>
<div class="col-sm-12">
<img src="img/cert_chain.png" height="206" /> </div>
<div class="row"></div>
<p></p>
<p>Note that the "root" certificate is "AddTrust's External
CA Root", which issued a certificate to the "COMODO RSA
Certification Authority", which in turn issued a certificate
to the "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA"
which in turn issued our certificate, "*.sslip.io".
</p>
<p class="lead">How is "sslip.io" pronounced?</p>
<p>ESS-ESS-ELL-EYE-PEE-DOT-EYE-OH</p>
<p class="lead">Where do I report bugs? I think I found one.</p>
<p>Open an issue on <a href="https://github.com/cunnie/sslip.io/issues">GitHub</a>;
we're tracking our issues there.</p>
<p class="lead">There's a typo/mistake on the sslip.io website. </p>
<p>Thanks! We love <a href="https://github.com/cunnie/sslip.io/pulls">pull requests</a>.</p>
<div class="row">
<p></p>
<p>Note that the "root" certificate is "AddTrust's External
CA Root", which issued a certificate to the "COMODO
RSA Certification Authority", which in turn issued
a certificate to the "COMODO RSA Domain Validation
Secure Server CA" which in turn issued our certificate,
"*.sslip.io".</p>
<p class="lead">How is "sslip.io" pronounced?</p>
<p>ESS-ESS-ELL-EYE-PEE-DOT-EYE-OH</p>
<p class="lead">Where do I report bugs? I think I found one.</p>
<p>Open an issue on <a href="https://github.com/cunnie/sslip.io/issues">GitHub</a>;
we're tracking our issues there.</p>
<p class="lead">There's a typo/mistake on the sslip.io website. </p>
<p>Thanks! We love <a href="https://github.com/cunnie/sslip.io/pulls">pull requests</a>.</p>
<div class="row">
<p></p>
</div>
<p>&copy; 2015 Brian Cunnie, Pivotal Software </p>
</div>
<p>&copy; 2015 Brian Cunnie, Pivotal Software </p>
</div>
</div>
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<li>a wildcard SSL certificate for *.sslip.io and the corresponding
key, both downloadable from GitHub</li>
</ol>
<p>A developer can install the certificate and key on the
server, modify the server's configuration and restart
the daemon, at which point anyone can browse the server
using the sslip.io hostname (e.g. <i>52-0-56-137.sslip.io</i>)
via HTTPS and receive a valid SSL connection (green lock).
All in a matter of seconds. </p>
<p>Install the certificate and key on the
server, modify the server's configuration to use the certificate and key, and restart
the daemon. After that, browse the server
using the sslip.io hostname via HTTPS (e.g.
<a href="https://52-0-56-137.sslip.io">https://52-0-56-137.sslip.io</a>)
and receive a valid SSL connection (green lock), all in a matter of seconds. </p>
<h3>How do I use it? </h3>
<p class="lead">First, find your server's IP address to determine its sslip.io
hostname</p>
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<th>Server's IP Address</th>
<th>sslip.io Hostname</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>52.0.56.137</td>
<td><a href="https://52-0-56-137.sslip.io/">52-0-56-137.sslip.io</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>127.0.0.1</td>
<td>127-0-0-1.sslip.io</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10.1.1.2</td>
<td>www-10-1-1-2.sslip.io</td>
<td>192.168.1.80</td>
<td>192-168-1-80.sslip.io</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>172.16.0.1</td>
<td>console-172-16-0-1.sslip.io</td>
<td>172.16.0.80</td>
<td>172-16-0-80.sslip.io</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>52.0.56.137</td>
<td><a href="https://52-0-56-137.sslip.io/">52-0-56-137.sslip.io</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
<p style="font-style:
italic;">Note that in the last two examples we prepended additional
information to the hostname, i.e. "www-" and "console-",
respectively. This allows sslip.io to work with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting#Name-based">name-based
virtual hosting</a>.</p>
<p class="lead">Second, download sslip.io's SSL certificate and key from
GitHub</p>
<p>Download the SSL key (<a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cunnie/sslip.io/master/ssl/sslip.io.key.pem">sslip.io.key.pem</a>)