• Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      That requires outside authentication though. I think it would be cool to incorporate some SSL into dhcp

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        10 months ago

        That will never happen. SSL is based on trust, and the trust root will never blindly delegate to whatever happens in random LANs. Subdomain is 100% the right approach for internal network.

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          It can and has already happened. You can make your own root ca. Internal domains need internal root cas. Is it a pia to setup yes. Do I have it installed on my unrooted android phone and linux computers? Yes.

          Edit: I didn’t see the dhcp part. But you can still make your own root ca

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        The maintainers of DHCP can’t even be bothered standardising a query to check if an address is currently in use, doubt they could take on being a CA at the same time