Wildcard SSL on sub-subdomain [closed]

A wildcard SSL certificate for *.example.net will match sub.example.net but not sub.sub.example.net.

From RFC 2818:

Matching is performed using the matching rules specified by
RFC2459. If more than one identity of a given type is present in
the certificate (e.g., more than one dNSName name, a match in any one
of the set is considered acceptable.) Names may contain the wildcard
character * which is considered to match any single domain name
component or component fragment. E.g., *.a.example matches foo.a.example but
not bar.foo.a.example. f*.example matches foo.example but not bar.example.

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