Question about visibility

[Warren Kumari]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 1:26 PM 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?
>
>
Nope. It is somewhat less likely that it would be discovered / accidentally
exposed, but it is *far* from certain.

If you were wanting to do something like this, I'd suggest having a DNS
name (because that makes it easier), but firewalling it off so that only
"authorized" people can reach it. This could be something like iptables, a
VPN, or, more likely / less annoying, simply having your webserver require
a login to access the content...

W




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I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in
the first place.
This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing
regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of
pants.
   ---maf
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