validate-hostname
This command controls whether to validate the hostname in the server certificate during the handshake.
Syntax
validate-hostname on
validate-hostname off
Parameters
on- Validates the hostname in the server certificate.
off- Does not validate the hostname in the server certificate. This setting is the default value.
Guidelines
The validate-hostname command controls whether to validate the hostname in the
server certificate during the handshake. When enabled, use the following commands to define the
processing of the server certificate.
- The hostname-validation-flags command to set the flags that fine tunes the validation methods and settings during the handshake.
- The hostname-validation-fail command to control whether to terminate the handshake when hostname validation fails.
- When the hostname-validation-fail command is set to
off, use the validate-server-cert command to control whether to validate the server certificate during the handshake. - When the validate-server-cert command is set to
on, use the valcred command to specify the name of the validation credentials to validate the server certificate during the handshake.