Question about visibility

[Hardy, Andrew]

Ok I'm a bit confused.  I have some questions re last post, copied below:

I have done this some time ago, I made sure that there was no link from any
pages to the new site,
** So the new site (in development) would have no domain name mapped in
DNS, so it seems unlikely that other sites and pages would have links to
http://x.x.x.x unless the developer put it there.

Google stayed away until somebody typed the address
** You mean typed the IP address? You mean in an actual Google search
string?

 into the search field, then it was known.
** So typing the host IP address as a Google search string would
(ultimately) in time lead to a Google search string, that could be found on
the sites web pages, listing pages from the site?

This is no guarantee of course as mentioned in other place but it worked
for about 6 months.
** Ok, so even if you don't formally register / index (or what ever it is)
your site on Google, if you use it's IP in a search string, given time it
could show up in searches using text that's on its pages?


Just to say thank you so much for people commenting.  I do appreciate you
taking the time.



On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 14:50 Sten Carlsen <stenc at s-carlsen.dk> wrote:

> I have done this some time ago, I made sure that there was no link from
> any pages to the new site, Google stayed away until somebody typed the
> address into the search field, then it was known.
>
> This is no guarantee of course as mentioned in other place but it worked
> for about 6 months.
>
> On 11/10/2018 13.26, Admin Hardy wrote:
>
>
> I realise this is not specifically a BIND/DNS question and a bit off topic
> so please ignore if need be I realise people are often very busy.
>
> If you you have a website but the host IP you do not list with any domain
> name in DNS, is it definite that this site could never be reached via
> Google.  I do not really know the nuts and bolts of how Google gets access
> to pages.
>
> If for 'some particular reason' instead of developing a site on a local
> dev machine on your LAN and then uploading/installing the site to a remote
> server, you needed 'for what ever reason' to do the development and testing
> on the final live host accessing it via the ip address, would this be a way
> to be 'almost certain' of keeping it hidden from unwanted accidental
> exposure?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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