Mastodon Server?

[Jon Boone]

Point of fact, you can CNAME to alternate domains (this is how cloud hosting typically works) -- the issue is what X.509 Certificate needs to match what the client is expecting (typically the CNAME or a wildcard for the domain the CNAME is in) to preclude TLS issues.

— jb
On Nov 21, 2022 at 10:21 -0500, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com>, wrote:
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> > On Nov 14, 2022, at 22:07, Clint Moore <clint at ivy.io> wrote:
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> > > What do you need from the CLF for such a service?
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> > An A or CNAME record.
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> > > What sort of CNAME would you want?
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> > I'd probably let the community decide the name, though
> > mastodon|fediverse|etc.common-lisp.net come to mind. I can be pretty
> > bad at naming things though, so I'm all ears for suggestions.
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> > An example of what I'd run is at cons.ivy.io - I set it up this past
> > weekend thinking that there was no interest from the CLF collectively.
> > I still haven't changed much of the design and am absolutely open to
> > suggestions about the design, graphics, etc.
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> Clint,
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> We’d be happy to give ya use of any name you want in *.common-lisp.net <http://common-lisp.net/>. Probably best to do with A/AAAA records as I don’t think one can actually CNAME “across domains”.
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> I’ve been a bit under the weather the past week, but should be better now.
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> yours,
> Mark
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> "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing
> to compare to it now."
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