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I have certificate issued to *.iphone.apple.com. It has *.ipod.apple.com as a SAN.

Can this be used for gen5.touch.ipod.apple.com or should *.touch.ipod.apple.com be added to *.iphone.apple.com as a SAN?

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Wildcards only apply to a single DNS label. So *.example.com would only support sub1.example.com, but not sub2.sub1.example.com. So for 2nd level sub-domains you'd need a wildcard at the 1st subdomain level (*.sub1.example.com).

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Thanks! Is this information available online somewhere? – Sam Aug 22 '12 at 2:25
@Sam It's all enclosed in RFC4592 if you wish to dig through it. That applies to DNS, but the SAN inherits the 'leftmost label' constraint. – sysadmin1138♦ Aug 22 '12 at 2:28
Thanks a lot for the link! – Sam Aug 22 '12 at 2:32

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