<div dir="auto"><div>Ok I'm a bit confused. I have some questions re last post, copied below:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">I have done this some time ago, I made sure that there was no link from any pages to the new site, </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">** 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 <a href="http://x.x.x.x">http://x.x.x.x</a> unless the developer put it there.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Google stayed away until somebody typed the address</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">** You mean typed the IP address? You mean in an actual Google search string?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> into the search field, then it was known.</span></div><div dir="auto">** 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?</div><div dir="auto"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">This is no guarantee of course as mentioned in other place but it worked for about 6 months.</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">** 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?</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Just to say thank you so much for people commenting. I do appreciate you taking the time.</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 14:50 Sten Carlsen <<a href="mailto:stenc@s-carlsen.dk">stenc@s-carlsen.dk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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.<br>
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This is no guarantee of course as mentioned in other place but it
worked for about 6 months.<br>
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<div class="m_-2333697059118511343moz-cite-prefix">On 11/10/2018 13.26, Admin Hardy wrote:<br>
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Thanks.
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