On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Dean Pentcheff wrote: >Joi Ellis wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: >... >> I'm also not sure I'd want the identity of my tape backup server >> visible with simple DNS queries, either. That makes it a juicy >> target. >> >You should be aware that a trivial port scan of the network will reveal >the Amanda hosts, so there's not much to be gained by a simple name >obfuscation. An example from our network: Well, yes, except that, until just last month, our DNS was managed by our ISP, and they published the entries for everything we gave them. The only service-like name we gave them was 'mail', everything else was simple host names. Now that we have our own internal DNS, we have fewer machines published. I hope.. -- Joi Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/
