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How is your DNS set up for that subdomain? Is it on a wildcard DNS record?
Do you mean the SSL cert? Yes, that's wildcard on *.mydomain.com. Then the subdomain is kvtn4ftxfreurdcw7qtr21mcywxaqqm.mydomain.com.
In this case I mean the DNS entry for the random string. The thing pointing that subdomain at your IP/proxy.
It's just an A record pointing to my IP. IP's updated from my router via the DNS provider API.
If that A record isn’t a wildcard, anyone can see it, is what I’m getting at.
Hm. As far as I know that can only be done if AXFR is enabled (it's not), if the domain has entered some search engine that has remembered it, or through brute force lookup. Am I missing something?
Give it a look on https://dnsdumpster.com/ or similar. Your dns records are inherently public, so anyone that works out the domain can work out the subdomain. In fact there are plenty of tools that just scan every domain/subdomain they can find.
Thanks for the pointer. Checked, tried a couple others - they don't know about it. They have some other non-random DNS records. AFAIK they can absolutely find it if they scan for all domains, but it'll take forever if the name is randomly-generated and sufficiently long. Someone has to be determined to spend the resources. This doesn't guard against that but against bots trying to fuck with the service at the port. I could move it to a wildcard though. There's an overlap with another subdomain (they're actually sub-subdomains and the first sub is common) but I could move that.