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		smjburton 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: .localhost Domains It's not, just a different way of satisfying the certificate challenge. Look into a DNS-01 challenge vs a HTTP-01 challenge. Let's Encrypt has a good breakdown: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/.

shadowpho 9 months ago [–]

Gotcha and that lets us avoid to expose internals? that seems like a win win win, I should totally do this!

smjburton 9 months ago | [–]

Yeah that's right. You can use something like https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns or something similar to validate the DNS-01 challenge.

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