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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there a setting in Stunnel to do FQDN checking? Level 3 checking requires a local copy of the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Peer's certificate. When doing mutual authentication, I run into scalability issues when the devices</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Run into the thousands using Level3 validation. However, if Stunel was capable of doing FQDN checks,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">That would help while not requiring me to do level 3 checks (although that is probably better).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sekhar</FONT>
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