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ashu1461yesterday at 8:16 AM2 repliesview on HN

Isn't the article over emphasising a little bit on leakage of internal urls ?

Internal hostnames leaking is real, but in practice it’s just one tiny slice of a much larger problem: names and metadata leak everywhere - logs, traces, code, monitoring tools etc etc.


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icedchaiyesterday at 7:07 PM

Is it a real problem? My internal hostnames resolve to RFC-1918 addresses and I have a firewall. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd use split DNS.

reddaloyesterday at 8:41 AM

In other words: never put sensitive information in names and metadata.

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