Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:39:11 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Drew Raines <drew-dated-1022685887.50e0d6@rain3s.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: internal hosts in email Message-ID: <3CE2811F.9325CAA7@centtech.com> References: <3CE2702A.A67642FE@centtech.com> <20020515150303.GU16671@williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu> <3CE27B5F.EB6D7F4F@centtech.com> <20020515152446.GW16671@williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu>
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Drew Raines wrote: > > True, it alone is not security, and I'm not betting the ranch on it > > (nor would I ever). On the other hand, less information is a good > > thing when it comes to your internal nets. > > No, you're betting the ranch on your firewall. Someone would gain > intimate knowledge of your internal network anyway should they > compromise it. How is that? Security is something that takes place throughout the network, not just on the firewall (firewalls in my case). Are you saying it's perfectly safe to bleed internal host information out to the world? What about simply removing the IP addresses, and leaving the hostnames in? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology You have my continuous partial attention ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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