Question about visibility
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Oct 11 19:13:13 UTC 2018
In article <mailman.664.1539257203.803.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
Admin Hardy <admin at innerface.net> wrote:
> I realise this is not specifically a BIND/DNS question and a bit off
> topic so please ignore if need be I realise people are often very busy.
>
> If you you have a website but the host IP you do not list with any
> domain name in DNS, is it definite that this site could never be reached
> via Google. I do not really know the nuts and bolts of how Google gets
> access to pages.
>
> If for 'some particular reason' instead of developing a site on a local
> dev machine on your LAN and then uploading/installing the site to a
> remote server, you needed 'for what ever reason' to do the development
> and testing on the final live host accessing it via the ip address,
> would this be a way to be 'almost certain' of keeping it hidden from
> unwanted accidental exposure?
If you accidentally, or someone else intentionally, create a link to the
site that uses the IP and put it on a web page that Google can get to,
it will probably find the page.
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Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA
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