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It kinda depends on the question, and you as a person who posts on the Internet.

I don't usually mention who I work for, specific server names, or IP addresses in answers or questions, but my userid is not common, and I believe only used by me. It can be pretty easily linked to where I work, my real name, and tons of detail. If someone evil person was bored enough they get a lot of information about me and make a lot of semi-informed guesses about the networks I support by reading through the thousands of posts by me here and on the rest of the Internet. Since I answer/ask a lot of questions, trying to hide some details probably is a waste of effort since someone can find out the information anyway.

I think it is reasonable to mask or hide some information. Perhaps using example.(org|com|net), or hiding an IP by changing the first 1-2 octets to a RFC1918 address 8.8.8.8 -> 10.8.8.8 or 192.168.8.8. Just replacing it with a like 8.8.8.8 -> .*.*.8.8 may hide some useful information. If you want good answers, and also want to mask away critical details it is very important that you provide enough details so we can help. I have seen routing questions where the poster masked away the last two octets 10.10..*.* making the network nearly impossible to understand and so making the question unanswerable.

If I was talking about something that was internal to my network that could not be tested externally I doubt I would provide much detail that would expose the network I was working on. But I would try to provide masked information to make sure that people potentially answering my question where able to get an accurate understanding of the situation so they could provide the best answers.

When I am asking questions I usually only try to provide details that are directly relevant to the question. If I had a question about DNS, I might be tempted to mention the domain that I was talking about since other users could actually submit queries and provide more helpful answers.

It kinda depends on the question, and you as a person who posts on the Internet.

I don't usually mention who I work for, specific server names, or IP addresses in answers or questions, but my userid is not common, and I believe only used by me. It can be pretty easily linked to where I work, my real name, and tons of detail. If someone evil person was bored enough they get a lot of information about me and make a lot of semi-informed guesses about the networks I support by reading through the thousands of posts by me here and on the rest of the Internet. Since I answer/ask a lot of questions, trying to hide some details probably is a waste of effort since someone can find out the information anyway.

I think it is reasonable to mask or hide some information. Perhaps using example.(org|com|net), or hiding an IP by changing the first 1-2 octets to a RFC1918 address 8.8.8.8 -> 10.8.8.8 or 192.168.8.8. Just replacing it with a like 8.8.8.8 -> ..8.8 may hide some useful information. If you want good answers, and also want to mask away critical details it is very important that you provide enough details so we can help. I have seen routing questions where the poster masked away the last two octets 10.10.. making the network nearly impossible to understand and so making the question unanswerable.

If I was talking about something that was internal to my network that could not be tested externally I doubt I would provide much detail that would expose the network I was working on. But I would try to provide masked information to make sure that people potentially answering my question where able to get an accurate understanding of the situation so they could provide the best answers.

When I am asking questions I usually only try to provide details that are directly relevant to the question. If I had a question about DNS, I might be tempted to mention the domain that I was talking about since other users could actually submit queries and provide more helpful answers.

It kinda depends on the question, and you as a person who posts on the Internet.

I don't usually mention who I work for, specific server names, or IP addresses in answers or questions, but my userid is not common, and I believe only used by me. It can be pretty easily linked to where I work, my real name, and tons of detail. If someone evil person was bored enough they get a lot of information about me and make a lot of semi-informed guesses about the networks I support by reading through the thousands of posts by me here and on the rest of the Internet. Since I answer/ask a lot of questions, trying to hide some details probably is a waste of effort since someone can find out the information anyway.

I think it is reasonable to mask or hide some information. Perhaps using example.(org|com|net), or hiding an IP by changing the first 1-2 octets to a RFC1918 address 8.8.8.8 -> 10.8.8.8 or 192.168.8.8. Just replacing it with a like 8.8.8.8 -> *.*.8.8 may hide some useful information. If you want good answers, and also want to mask away critical details it is very important that you provide enough details so we can help. I have seen routing questions where the poster masked away the last two octets 10.10.*.* making the network nearly impossible to understand and so making the question unanswerable.

If I was talking about something that was internal to my network that could not be tested externally I doubt I would provide much detail that would expose the network I was working on. But I would try to provide masked information to make sure that people potentially answering my question where able to get an accurate understanding of the situation so they could provide the best answers.

When I am asking questions I usually only try to provide details that are directly relevant to the question. If I had a question about DNS, I might be tempted to mention the domain that I was talking about since other users could actually submit queries and provide more helpful answers.

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It kinda depends on the question, and you as a person who posts on the Internet.

I don't usually mention who I work for, specific server names, or IP addresses in answers or questions, but my userid is not common, and I believe only used by me. It can be pretty easily linked to where I work, my real name, and tons of detail. If someone evil person was bored enough they get a lot of information about me and make a lot of semi-informed guesses about the networks I support by reading through the thousands of posts by me here and on the rest of the Internet. Since I answer/ask a lot of questions, trying to hide some details probably is a waste of effort since someone can find out the information anyway.

I think it is reasonable to mask or hide some information. Perhaps using example.(org|com|net), or hiding an IP by changing the first 1-2 octets to a RFC1918 address 8.8.8.8 -> 10.8.8.8 or 192.168.8.8. Just replacing it with a like 8.8.8.8 -> ..8.8 may hide some useful information. If you want good answers, and also want to mask away critical details it is very important that you provide enough details so we can help. I have seen routing questions where the poster masked away the last two octets 10.10.. making the network nearly impossible to understand and so making the question unanswerable.

If I was talking about something that was internal to my network that could not be tested externally I doubt I would provide much detail that would expose the network I was working on. But I would try to provide masked information to make sure that people potentially answering my question where able to get an accurate understanding of the situation so they could provide the best answers.

When I am asking questions I usually only try to provide details that are directly relevant to the question. If I had a question about DNS, I might be tempted to mention the domain that I was talking about since other users could actually submit queries and provide more helpful answers.