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Re: SERVER NAMES

  • From: Patrick Greenwell
  • Date: Thu Feb 03 02:11:02 2000 
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 [email protected] wrote:

> > 
> > Not picking on you in particular, but isn't one of the greatest advantages
> > to having DNS to offer *meaningful* names to machines(assuming anything
> > other than a home network?)
> > 
> > It's nice to be able to go in to a company and see machines named "www1,
> > www2, mx1, mx2" etc. which offer some indication as to their purpose
> > rather than "maverick, foozlebutt, blarg", etc. which offers no such
> > indication. I know it isn't as fun, but it certainly seems to be much more
> > useful (IMO of course...) 
> > 
> 
> Sure.  Esp. for blackhats.  Which makes the more "attactive" target;
> 
> 	db.accounting.bigcorp.com
> 	foozlebutt.bigcorp.com

Do we need to re-visit the "security through obscurity" argument here?

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                               Patrick Greenwell                          
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