title: Are SSL certificates bound to the servers IP address?
body: <p>We have two different ldap providers in two different physical office locations.</p>
  <p>When I connect my laptop to one location and I 'retrieve from port' (in Websphere 6.1) to import the SSL cert of the ldap provider, I can authenticate to the respective ldap with no problems. If I take my laptop to the other office (that uses the other ldap provider by default) and I plugin my laptop, my WAS on my laptop will not start because it says 'no trusted SSL cert found'.</p>
  <p>If I 'retrieve from port' again and re import the cert then it works again.</p>
  <p>Note that my WAS always try to connect to one ldap, it simply has no use for the other one.</p>
  <p>If I go back to the other office I get the same error until I reimport from that location. The ldap connection point is <code>ldap.example.com:636</code> and is pingable in both locations with the same FQDN.</p>
  <p>But when pinged it resolves to a different IP address in each office location. Why do I see that behavior?</p>
  <p>Are SSL Certs somehow bound to a specific IP address?</p>
  <p>If yes, then I need to maintain a different set of certs for each office location, right?</p>
  <p>Note that, there is no way to adjust the DNS servers to resolve the hostname to the same IP address, I checked.</p>
  <p>Can someone provide some insight?</p>