two DNS records on SAN Certificate explanation.

Question

Hi,

I was browsing a website then got curious about it's certificate. I checked the certificate and this is what the cert tree looks like.

Upon checking the SAN I see two DNS entries:
DNS Name=sni.cloudflaressl.com
DNS Name=www.globe.com.ph

My question is can someone explain these two entries in DNS Name?

Why when I enter sni.cloudflaressl.com in the browser it does not bring me to the same website as www.globe.com.ph?

Isn't it suppose to bring me to the same website?

Answer 1

SNI.cloudflaressl.com is part of the service offered and not relay with the site hosted (in your case https://www.globe.com.ph/)
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-sni/
"SNI is somewhat like mailing a package to an apartment building instead of to a house. When mailing something to someone's house, the street address alone is enough to get the package to the right person. But when a package goes to an apartment building, it needs the apartment number in addition to the street address; otherwise, the package might not go to the right person or might not be delivered at all."

The site sni.cloudflaressl.com has a permantent redirect to https://www.cloudflare.com/