Michael Gapper wrote:
If by your reply you mean that you cannot help unless all addresses are in plain text then perhaps you should say so.
More accurately: I *won't* help. Knowing the FQDNs and IPs means I can examine those hosts directly, and sometimes when people are hiding that information they make transcription errors e.g. Him: what's wrong with iptables -A PREROUTING -o eth0 -j DNAT --to a.b.c.d ? Me: you forgot -t nat. Him: oops, I fogot it there, but my real code has -t nat. Likewise sometimes the problem is that the querent doesn't notice that the log says example.net where it says example.com, and that is a key point to isolating the actual fault. The argument for suppressing such information is [0] which is practically useless in isolation but has some merit as part of [1]. The argument against it is that it makes life more difficult for people providing support, i.e. me. Since I'm volunteering my time and it's finite, I generally ignore such questions entirely and go help someone else. Since this *is* the beginner list, I thought I'd at least point that out, since usually there's a dozen other people in the same position who won't respond at all. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)
It is a beginners list and perhaps the"I TL;DR'd your post as soon as I saw the security-through-obscurity IPs." line deserves some explanation for those of us who admit to being beginners!
Sorry about that.