Security Of Cloud Shared Links
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Or, let's ask the opposite, what do you feel is required for something to be a link?
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If I get a text output from a DNS server, I get a collection of links both FQDN and IP Addresses (and in some cases extra stuff.) Both the FQDN and the IP Address are just links. Sure, if it is pure text then there is no anchor tag, but that's just one way to make something a link. The A and CNAME and PTR records in DNS are all just nothing but links. Anything reading the DNS entries has links to your sites.
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I see it more grey than that. I don't have a name for what they are.
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@Dashrender said in Security Of Cloud Shared Links:
I see it more grey than that. I don't have a name for what they are.
But the verb that they do is.... link to your site, right? They aren't an anchor tag, but what grey makes them in any form not a link? I'm unclear where the grey is here. They are just one thing, a link, right? It's not like they are anything else.
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Let's try it this way....
What is a link? I'd say that, in this context, it is a pointer to a resource available over HTTP.
That's how I would qualify something as a link. And DNS does this fully, as much as any other kind of link.
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@scottalanmiller said in Security Of Cloud Shared Links:
@Dashrender said in Security Of Cloud Shared Links:
I see it more grey than that. I don't have a name for what they are.
But the verb that they do is.... link to your site, right? They aren't an anchor tag, but what grey makes them in any form not a link? I'm unclear where the grey is here. They are just one thing, a link, right? It's not like they are anything else.
It's a resolution object - I guess it could be a link - just seems weird.
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Can a search engine or a human or any script you want look at DNS and follow the links to web resources? Yes. Is it designed to do this? Yes.
So I'd say that it is both a link AND intended to be a link.
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@Dashrender said in Security Of Cloud Shared Links:
@scottalanmiller said in Security Of Cloud Shared Links:
@Dashrender said in Security Of Cloud Shared Links:
I see it more grey than that. I don't have a name for what they are.
But the verb that they do is.... link to your site, right? They aren't an anchor tag, but what grey makes them in any form not a link? I'm unclear where the grey is here. They are just one thing, a link, right? It's not like they are anything else.
It's a resolution object - I guess it could be a link - just seems weird.
That's because you are looking at it from the perspective of doing resolution. But if you look at it from the perspective of outputting the DNS list, it's only links. DNS does the resolution of links when the DNS protocol is used, but I'm talking about the entry itself. The entry is a link, that's what the A record is.
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The entry itself can't output it self.. you have to use DNS to get the list, just like HTTP can't generate a list of items in a specified folder, the Web Server has to product a file (probably on the fly) for HTTP to deliver.
Again, this really isn't getting us anywhere - it's just weird.
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@Dashrender said in Security Of Cloud Shared Links:
The entry itself can't output it self.. you have to use DNS to get the list, just like HTTP can't generate a list of items in a specified folder, the Web Server has to product a file (probably on the fly) for HTTP to deliver.
Again, this really isn't getting us anywhere - it's just weird.
The entry can't, but the entry itself is a link. What many DNS servers do is automatically produce all output for a domain as links. So you query them and you get a list of the links. This is how CloudFlare, for example, polls another DNS server to automate DNS movement.
