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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



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