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Re: DNS Names for external services
From: Henri Salo <henri () nerv fi>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:36:14 +0300
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:16:06 -0500 "Behm, Jeff" <jbehm () burnsmcd com> wrote:
Just curious, what is your opinions of the security vs. ease of use trade-offs on putting DNS entries in (vs. making people know/use an IP address) for services you expose to the Internet. For example, webmail.companynamehere.com for your webmail service www.companynamehere.com for your web site The two above are typically common and don't cause me much concern. What about this next one? vpn.companynamehere.com for your employees to access your company's VPN server It's this last one that really begs the question. Should I just as well use the name "attackmehere.companynamehere.com" rather than vpn.companynamehere.com. I searched around on the Internet, but couldn't really find pros and cons... Just looking for opinions. There are no "right" answers ;-) Jeff
Please use domain example.com in your examples. Domain companynamehere.com is registered. --- Henri Salo _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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