Re: DNS Names for external services

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:16:06 -0500
"Behm, Jeff" <[email protected]> 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