Your forward DNS name can be anything.

Your reverse DNS name *must* be one of the DNS entries in your cert,
the primary hostname by default.

Trevor

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Forrie <for...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Puppet docs require a PUPPET server name -- which I presumed a CNAME
> would suffice.  However, I'm finding that's not the case - as the SSL
> cert generated is for the actual system name pupptmasterd runs on
> (makes sense).
>
> The server that puppetmasterd is running on services other purposes,
> and I don't want to call it puppet.  I'm wondering if this is simply
> for cosmetic needs say, for new clients.
>
>
> Thanks.
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