Question about visibility

[Barry Margolin]

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.

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA