Patrick Greenwell: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:08 PM
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com 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
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?
Obscurity is like chicken soup ... it can't hurt and it gives you that warm feeling...<grin> Who knows ? ... it might help someday, or raise some crackers life-is-hell quotient just a notch higher. Every little bit helps.